Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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Yes. Our Department has doubled in size. The big increase has been in energy, and the big increase within that has been in offshore energy. We have a massive new team of capable civil servants working on this. The Deputy is right, though. The biggest challenge now is probably in An Bord Pleanála and MARA in getting the resource. MARA is up and running with more than 20 staff already in place. We picked a good chair and I am confident that there will be no shortage of ambition with the chair and whoever the chief executive will be.