Mr. Tim Murphy:

To answer the Senator's first question, we should be ready by quarter 1 2026 with infrastructure to support renewable energy, RE. The committee will also see our master plan this week, which will show the graphics. I included some of them in the opening statement.

It is important to say, in the context of our consultations on the master plan with all these developers over the past couple of years, there is already a significant amount of expertise in Ireland. Many of these companies are not only based in Ireland but have built out many of the onshore wind farms around the country. There are two in County Cork alone, namely, Statkraft and Ørsted. There is also Energia and Corio. All have places in Ireland and have built up huge expertise around Ireland and Europe. Many of them have built out offshore wind farms in Europe. The expertise is also in Ireland and there are many engineering jobs in that regard.

It is one thing to build out during the construction phase. It is even more important that there are sustainable jobs after that. That is the OM of the wind farms. There is big potential for sustainable jobs in that area.