Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 May 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion
9:30 am
Mr. Mark Cullen:
I will take the question on offshore. Regarding renewable energy and offshore, many wind farms are being planned. We have engaged with the sector to carry out a number of inspections. As Mr. O’Brien said, there is the construction part of it and then there is the maintenance and running of it. We will have a role right through the lives of the offshore wind farms.
We have a role in fishing, which comes in under the agriculture and fishing sector. We do inspections in that area. We have a role in any place that is classified as a place of work under the 2005 Act, which is our primary legislation. It cuts across all sectors, and every place of work, and the area of fishing is one of them. We have a footprint there through inspections, but also with the information and guidance that is on our website.