Mr. Gary Tobin:

All the points the Deputy made are very fair. For example, as part of the strategy this year, we will commence an annual programme of events to showcase offshore wind in order to encourage more investment in research, development and innovation within the industry. We are engaging with the various research organisations in Ireland for which this is a relatively new sector. It is probably not one that they are as familiar with as, for example, biopharma or semiconductors.

What we are seeing is a great deal of very positive interest from some of the research stakeholders to get involved. Part of this whole strategy is to try to nudge different areas of Government and industry to focus more on this sector.