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 might give a very generic response and then let Ms Raleigh and Mr. Lefroy respond with their actual experiences. The Government in 2021, I believe it was, set a 5 GW target for 2030 for offshore wind energy. That was a very deliverable target at that time. Now we are sitting here in 2025 and most likely that 5 GW target will not be met until 2035 at the earliest. The timelines for everything have been extended dramatically. We have not even got to the JR part of it yet.

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