Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I assure the Deputy that we are making very detailed progress in our Department in terms of Powering Prosperity through skills and job and supply chain opportunities. That is acknowledged by the groups with which we are engaging. As the Deputy knows, the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications has responsibility for future auctions and grid development. The Minister, Deputy Burke, and I are very focused on ensuring that we have supply chain opportunities for smaller Irish companies and regionally based Irish companies.

Indeed, in Deputy O'Rourke's own area, there are wonderful companies doing extraordinarily innovative things, not just here in Ireland, but abroad. I am more than happy to meet those companies and address any of the concerns the Deputy has in terms of Powering Prosperity and how we can supercharge that, but we are very focused. This year was the first year that we had an Irish pavilion at the WindEurope conference. That is an initiative that came from my visit to WindEurope last year. We want to continue to build the Irish brand. In terms of Powering Prosperity, we have the strategy and the scaffolding to do that.

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