Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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I thank Mr. Keating for his presentation. I will ask two brief questions, the first of which is on ports policy. When I raised this matter with the Minister of State at the Department of Transport before Christmas, she spoke about a multi-port approach and different things being done at different ports depending on the environment. Are we in the right place with that policy? I have heard some people argue that we should designate ports and move ahead with identified ports. What is Mr. Keating's sense of national ports policy and the development of the Shannon Foynes Port?

The Shannon Foynes Port Company has identified a future role in the marshalling, operations and maintenance of offshore wind farms. Did this come on the back of some consideration by the company? Did it rule out other elements of the industry? Why did it land on this role instead of manufacturing or the like?