Mr. Neil Davidson:

There has been investment by the Scottish Government, but our two major investors are SSE, which is a utility company, and ABB, which is a Swiss-based power and automation company. We have raised £70 million to date as a company. We work with 40 local businesses in Orkney and irrespective of where our devices are being manufactured, that requirement for local people to operate boats, undertake EIA work and so on comes with where the devices are sited, and not where the company is owned, so I think those jobs would flow if this developed here. We undertook an independent study of our 40 MW wave farm off the west coast of Lewis in the Western Isles, which is the world's first fully consented wave farm site. Our independent study showed that during the installation phase of the device, 200 jobs would be created locally for a 40 MW farm, with the 20 to 30 jobs ongoing in operations and maintenance. There is a definite local aspect to employment at wind farms.