Mr. Noel Cunniffe:

It is primarily based on the geography of Ireland. Fixed-bottom turbine technology is deployable in water depths of up to about 60 m. Off the west coast and for parts of the south coast the water tends to get very steep very quickly so one needs to move into floating offshore energy for that as it can be deployed up to depths of almost 1 km, in some cases. For the west coast potential, generally speaking there are limited areas that are suitable for the development of fixed-bottom turbines so it will be floating offshore wind off our west coast. Off the south coast, there will be some fixed-bottom turbines but there will be a lot of floating technology.