Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Ryan, with the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities, EirGrid and the Department, form a board to try to accelerate the offshore wind initiative. The desire of the State is to do this in a controlled and organised way, not in a wild west sort of way. It is a natural resource. It is a national resource that belongs to the Irish people. This must be done in a programmed way.

Many investors are in a hurry, and I understand that fully. I know what is happening in Scotland, which is moving at pace. We acknowledge-----

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