Mr. Conor McCabe:

A development plan is being devised at the moment. Harnessing Our Ocean Wealth 2 is the second iteration of it, the first dating to 2013. It seeks to capture opportunities and interventions that the State could perhaps make in developing activities around the coast, including offshore renewable energy among others. The Department is working closely with the Marine Institute on this. We hope to find a point of interaction between the spatial and investment in the same way that Project Ireland 2040 has worked so cohesively in that regard. The next iteration of this will be regional plans where we can look at aspects of that. We have a relatively new industry being brought to the country in offshore renewable energy and we must look at how we can capitalise on it in the areas it is operating from to achieve maximum societal benefit. We must also look at areas such as research and development, not just the hardware building. That is the next phase.