Clare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to enable the State sector including the ESB to develop the offshore wind industry using European Investment Bank funding or otherwise in view of (details supplied); his views on whether the basis for the development of our renewable energy resource has been funded by the State through Sustainable Energy Ireland, the Department of the Marine, the Marine Institute, the HMRC in UCC and the ESB; his further views on whether his plans for the development of the resources will enable multinational energy corporations, including those based here, to extract profits from the development of this resource with no payback to the Irish taxpayer for their investment in this resource over decades. [43958/12]

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