Mr. Justin Moran:

I will begin with a confession in response to a point you made earlier, Chairman. I remember sitting across the table from Senator Dooley in Buswells about three and a half years ago and telling him floating wind energy was a post-2030 thing. The reason I do not believe or say that anymore is that I have seen how much the technology has improved and, in particular, how much has been invested in turbine design and turbine manufacture to ensure they work. We have not built a floating wind farm in Ireland, obviously, but we have built them as an industry. We have built them off the coast of Portugal and off the coast of Scotland. They are working effectively. The Scottish test project, and I am open to correction on this, has been the most productive offshore wind farm off the coast of Scotland over the last couple of years, year on year. It has survived the North Sea. We will continue to improve the technology and continue to make it robust and strong enough to survive the Atlantic. As a Galway man, I know what the wind is like off the coast of Galway and in the Atlantic ocean, so I appreciate that they need to be tough. We will build them tough, and we have the science and the engineers who can do it.