Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 November 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Heads of Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed)

12:25 pm

Mr. Brendan Barry:

We are an island nation. We have the best resource in the world. Ireland and Scotland contain half of Europe's wave resource, so it is very fitting that Ireland should be a leader in this field. The economics of this will come right in countries like Ireland before anywhere else, so it makes perfect sense for us to get these enabling pieces of legislation and get on with trying to get the industry up and running here and creating the employment benefits and energy benefits, such as security of supply, that will come in due course.