Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy. I acknowledge his work, the work of the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment and its report on this space in 2023. We are focused on this. Our Department is working through our regional enterprise committees right across the country to identify the opportunities, and especially looking at ports to identify the infrastructure we need. It is vital we are ready and that we have that infrastructure in place. On the Shannon Estuary economic task force, we are looking at all the recommendations in that report. We published an implementation update at the end of June that showed the majority of recommended actions have been or will be implemented. We are very focused on looking at any opportunity. As well as infrastructure, we want to ensure we have the skills in place to back that up and to ensure the opportunities that will come with that infrastructure can be made available to people in the regions as well, and that we have that skills base available.

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