Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Offshore Renewable Industry Forum and Ireland’s Offshore Wind Industry: Discussion

Mr. Justin Moran:

To be quite positive about something, we would partner with Skillnet Ireland in the delivery of training courses to get people involved in this industry and to possibly transition from other sectors.

One of our colleagues was talking recently to a woman from County Cavan who emigrated to Australia, where she was working in a gold mine. She is now a wind turbine technician. She completed the green tech Skillnet Ireland course and retrained. She is now working on wind farms in Ireland, England, Norway and Scotland. There are programmes delivered through Skillnet Ireland that we can develop and build on. There is certainly the demand and the interest to get involved in the sector.