Ollie Crowe (Fianna Fail)
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Coming from Galway on the western seaboard which, as I am sure the witnesses will be aware, has the highest wind speeds in Europe, I believe in the enormous potential and opportunities wind energy can provide not just in terms of meeting our energy needs and climate change commitments but also in terms of job creation, as a number of witnesses stated earlier. I appreciate that the witnesses are carrying out analysis of port infrastructure so they may not be able to answer this specifically but perhaps they can offer some level of detail regarding the level of investment that is required to sufficiently address the infrastructure needs at our ports and the sort of timeframe they believe that would take.