Dr. James Carton:

To follow up on jobs, through the highlight project, there is a specific work package in relation to jobs around renewable energy, decarbonisation and green hydrogen. Interestingly, for something like hydrogen, when you are using electrolysers, it produces oxygen and hydrogen. There are many complementary applications for that oxygen, such as in sea farming or wastewater treatment facilities. There is a facility being built in Belfast on that proposal. The main focus is oxygen, not necessarily hydrogen, interestingly. Also, because hydrogen is an add-on to renewable energy, a lot more jobs are created per megawatt or money invested because there are a lot of supply chain requirements there, including everything beyond the wind farm, the hydrogen production facility maintenance, security, safety and the supply chain of that fuel energy carrier to the industry. There is a multiplication of jobs there. We are trying to understand exactly what that means for Ireland and how that could be fed into communities.