Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

As the Minister knows well, when everyone is in charge, no one is in charge. This is a cross-Government issue. I am aware of the Minister's commitment in respect of this matter. I am asking him to take ownership and to take a leadership role. We need to see investment in key infrastructure that will serve as the pillar to support the Gael Offshore Network, to anchor additional foreign direct investment coming in here. One of those areas is that of our ports. We do not have the capacity in any of our ports to construct these turbines today. We also have an Irish indigenous company, SuperNode, that wants to develop a transmission network right across Europe in order to export the wind energy we are generating off our Atlantic coast directly into the European grid, as well as bringing southern European solar energy into the European grid.

We need to support that company in delivering on that objective to benefit every single citizen in the State.

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