Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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54. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how the offshore wind delivery taskforce is resourced to complete its objectives and mandate. [25071/23]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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I established the inter-Departmental, inter-agency Offshore Wind Delivery Taskforce to accelerate delivery and capture the wider economic opportunities of offshore wind in Ireland. To do this, it brings together all the relevant Government Departments and agencies that are vital to the delivery of Ireland’s offshore wind ambitions.

With respect to resourcing, the Taskforce includes representatives at senior levels from its member organisations. My Department chairs the Taskforce, at Assistant Secretary level, and co-ordinates the work via a dedicated secretariat team.

Further information on the Taskforce is available here: www.gov.ie/ga/foilsiuchan/c8749-offshore-wind-delivery-taskforce/, including Key Actions for 2023, approved by Government and published in March 2023, which sets the critical immediate actions across all the Taskforce workstreams. These workstreams are resourced by individual Taskforce member organisations.