Mr. Pat Keating:

To answer that question, we have to look at the process we have been speaking about. The process currently does not facilitate any faster roll-out, if one likes, of floating offshore wind generation in particular. That is probably the blockage in the system. The industry and the sector want to get at it, so to speak, but we do not have a consenting system for floating offshore wind with which one can engage with at the moment. We have a very investable and sustainable green energy resource that cannot be harnessed because the system does not facilitate the expedient unlocking of the resource. One must remember it is a two-stage process in the context of maritime areas of consent and An Bord Pleanála, so it will take time. We do not want to go down the road of dealing with issues with the planning system here today but the timing issues in that regard have been called out in this country.