Mr. Noel Cunniffe:

It simply is not physically possible to meet 2030 targets at the moment. The development timeline for offshore wind energy is ten years. We think that it will likely be the early to mid-2030s by the time we hit 5 GW of capacity. We can do things to accelerate those projects and deliver them in 2030 or 2031. That is what we need to focus on right now. The Senator referred to countries that are doing this really well. The UK has rolled out offshore wind energy really successfully over the past decade. I visited towns in Scotland, for example, that were desolate. There were old oil and gas facilities, populations had diminished and schools closed. They are now reopening because there are workers on offshore wind farms in coastal communities in rural areas. That is what we want to see in Ireland.