Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy
Delivery Challenges in the Offshore Wind Sector: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Noel Cunniffe:
I will briefly cover that. My colleague Mr. Lefroy wants to come in with a more general point. On the ports policy, we understand that consultation will be coming out soon on ports. At the moment, just one port on the island of Ireland - Belfast, which is a fantastic port - is capable of constructing an offshore wind farm. There is construction happening in the Port of Cork to create a second port that can build an offshore wind farm, but we need more. We simply cannot deliver all of these projects from two ports on the island of Ireland. Otherwise, we will need to go abroad and build from ports outside of the Irish jurisdiction. That would be a massive loss in terms of economic growth, job opportunities and innovation in our country.
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