Mr. Kieran Ivers:

Green Rebel is a company headquartered in Cork but with offices in Limerick, Cork Airport and Crosshaven. We are a marine services company. We acquire data for developers that help inform them through the consent process as they apply for planning permission. Those data are designed to inform them on how to minimise the ecological impact of offshore wind farms and maximise the efficiency. We have invested significant capital in the acquisition of aircraft to run baseline ecology surveys, tracking bird and mammal migration patterns and densities to ensure we are ecologically sound. We have invested in a fleet of marine craft. It is like cutting the lawn at home where you go up and down in lines. We do the same on the investigation areas, identifying the seabed and its nuances in order to inform ecological and engineering requirements. We acquired a company last year, IDS Monitoring in Limerick, which makes up our MetOcean team. That team has developed the innovations I described to Deputy Shanahan and measures wind density and velocity. Those are the bankable data offshore wind farm developers need to release capital to develop these projects. It is a critical component of what they do. This is a real example of "Ireland can". In the space of two years we have gone from an idea to 75 employees, with ambition to grow well beyond 100 by the end of the this year. We have received extraordinary support from Government agencies like Enterprise Ireland, which are helping accelerate what we do in markets as far away as Australia. Ireland is the accelerator for Green Rebel but it is also the brake for our supply chain in the instances I explained to Deputy Shanahan. We will continue to invest in Ireland and use Ireland as our proof of concept in many cases. We will use it as a trampoline, for want of a better word, to show Ireland can compete and be a world leader in this industry.