Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael)
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I thank the Minister for attending and for his opening remarks. I apologise for being a little late as I was chairing the Dáil, but I did read the Minister's submission in advance. One of the biggest drivers of conversation in the committee over the past year has probably been offshore energy. Committee members had the benefit of travelling to Scotland where the vast majority of us saw the wind farm there. I did not, even thought I was there, but I am told it was lovely. I want to touch on that in the context of the work the Department is doing to identify issues in areas of industrial policy or even in identifying skill sets in which the Department would have a role in trying to support the sector. I refer to the identification of the deficiencies within the Irish market in supplying the offshore wind sector, insofar as identifying routes and vehicles and the sort of deliveries that we would expect to try to support this sector. What work has the Department done on that? I have three other questions, but I will pivot to the Minister.