Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 1 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion

Mr. Noel Cunniffe:

In the first instance we need to try to recruit them and see what comes back. There have been examples in other jurisdictions where they have faced initial teething problems in getting the sectors up and running and there have been secondments from industry of experienced people into departments or state agencies to try to progress projects as quickly as possible. The UK and the Netherlands rolled out such a scheme very successfully in the past decade.