Mr. Justin Moran:

I do not have a huge amount to add to that. There are three key questions that are flagged in Harnessing Our Potential. The first asks what are we good at in Ireland and what we can do now. The second asks what things we could do if we had adequate investment and resources to develop our skills. I touched earlier on the report that was published by the Government last year on future skills. To be frank, we must also ask what are the things we are unlikely to do in this Ireland. For example, it is unlikely we will manufacture turbine blades in Ireland. There is eagerness on the part of those involved in our ports infrastructure to be involved in this area. There is a possibility that we can increase the amount of investment that comes into this country and is retained by small and medium enterprises. We can assist in getting those enterprises up and running. They could be based in clusters around those ports, which will mean jobs for coastal communities. We want those companies to get to a point in the future to be able to compete internationally. If a company is coming here to develop an offshore wind farm, I would love to see Irish people learning and training, getting the skills and then taking those skills and building businesses that can compete in other markets. We are absolutely capable of doing that.

We cannot do everything. We must be realistic and admit there are parts of the supply chain for which we do not have the manufacturing base or skill set. However, there are places we can go into. As well as the pieces of work that Mr. Cunniffe has outlined, Enterprise Ireland is taking a good initiative at the moment. It is putting together an offshore wind energy network, including the kind of supply chain companies that could compete internationally and domestically. I think there are plans for an event some time over the summer which will try to bring together the developers and contractors, on the one hand, and the Irish companies that could be a part of our just transition and the development of offshore wind energy in Ireland, on the other hand.