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

I hope the Deputy will see real change occurring in the coming weeks. I was in Tarbert last week subsequent to a visit to Shannon-Foynes Port. I could talk about the Sceirde Rocks project in Connemara or the plans in Galway but I will take the Shannon Estuary as an example. A very significant report has been commissioned from Bechtel to look at the potential in the Shannon Estuary. I had a meeting with the Shannon Estuary economic task force and I believe we are all ad idemwith the sense of the opportunity. It is an opportunity on a considerable scale and not without its challenges. We have to get environmental and public support for it but there is potential for development in the Shannon Estuary with Money Point and Tarbert on either side, a fantastic grid connection and sites that are ideally suited for new power generation, green hydrogen or other infrastructure developments. Shannon-Foynes Port is a deep-water port with an island right beside it which could be a good place for the development with regard to the construction, assembly and formation of these new offshore turbines. There are locations in the estuary where we would look to store them in response to getting the weather opportunity to go out to the Atlantic. This is real. The Government is 100% committed to it and we will deliver.

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