Erin McGreehan (Louth, Fianna Fail)

There is a great opportunity on this island for generating energy in a sustainable way and I am ambitious for what we can do. I believe we can be a leader and part of that is infrastructure, capacity on the grids, storage capacity, but also capital infrastructure that is needed to maintain the offshore wind farms. Greenore Port in County Louth is in a perfect position to be an incredibly valuable asset for the country, North and South, as it has planning permission for new operational and maintenance facilities. This should be considered as a North-South project, potentially under the shared island unit. I ask that the Taoiseach would ask his Department to look at how the State can support Greenore Port so that it becomes an asset for the entire island.

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