OIREACHTAS COMMITTEE VISIT MARINE PROJECTS IN GALWAY

Date Published: 08-May-2008

Members of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Change and Energy Security are in Galway today and tomorrow for a briefing on the Marine Institute's programme.The delegation are visiting the ocean energy wave power test site at Spiddal around now [4pm], which is part of a programme to exploit renewable sources of energy.The Institute is working with the Government, the third level sector and industry to position Ireland as a global leader in the use of new technologies to monitor the marine environment.Tomorrow, the committee will attend a further briefing on other aspects of the Marine Institute's work on ocean climate change at its headquarters in Oranmore.