Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick East, Labour)
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Question 67: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has held talks with a company (details supplied) which is hoping to create thousands of jobs here in marine energy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23045/10]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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There has been some previous contact between the Ocean Energy Development Unit (OEDU) in Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland with Ocean Power Technologies (OPT).

Those discussions were about the possible use of an Underwater Connection Unit at the grid connected National Ocean Energy Test Site which is under development in Belmullet.

Following the recent marine energy conference which my Department co-hosted with the US Government and the Northern Ireland authorities, there were reports in the press that a US company, Rockhouse Mountain Energy, was looking at the possibility of deploying the Ocean Power technologies device in Irish waters by 2020.

No project proposals have been put forward by the developers to the OEDU at this stage.