Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We will get the Deputy a written update on that. We discussed it in the House previously. The Deputy knows that a lot of additional resources apply to that and there has been hiring of staff to address it. It is an issue. We will get the Department to furnish the Deputy with an exact update.

With regard to the national training fund, the Department is working closely with other Departments to develop options for application to the national training fund to support skills priorities and to develop our workforce. That is an area where we envisage Skillnet Ireland will have a role to play. I want to flag that at higher education level there are 14 courses in renewable energy which had been established under Springboard Plus 2021 and under the human capital initiative of Pillar 1.

As I am out of time, I will revert to Deputy Colm Burke with regard to offshore wind.

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