Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

To Deputy Verona Murphy, I would say the ESB is one company that over the State's history has done a huge service to the Irish people and it will do so again now. It has a critical role in delivering all the solutions we need at local level as well as thinking big about large offshore and other projects. It is companies like the ESB, Bord na Móna and Coillte - semi-State, public companies - that work for us and are owned by us which are part of the solution.

To Deputy Shanahan, I would say that I was disappointed that the research arm in WIT did not get the funding on the multi-species sward. I hope it will return and look for it again and stick with it because it may take time and persistence. The Deputy also mentioned wind research. Primarily, now, the research will be on the art of doing and of delivering. It will be applied research from what we learn by going big in scale off foreshores. Deputy Ó Cathasaigh knows about that for places such as Waterford and Wexford. I hope his sons will be able to rest and sleep at night. Even if the window is closing rapidly, which it is and it is very tight, it is by acting and taking those steps, as he says.

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