Speeches by Onn.

“Do you have enough people?”

“I adopted it.”

“Andrew, I was struck by your comment about the turbine in France being the same for 50 years. In our previous evidence session, there was a suggestion that there could be some reindustrialisation that comes from tidal technology, but 50 years does not indicate that lots of turbines will suddenly be required for replace…”

“Somebody used it beforehand.”

“I adopted it.”

“Could I move on to environmental impact? We have heard about the Severn estuary’s ecological and environmental importance, but there is a severe lack of current environmental data. The last survey data that the RSPB presented earlier this afternoon is from 2015. Does that lack of information make the development of a t…”

“You have recommended that a commercial development project in the form of a tidal lagoon be pursued as the first step in developing tidal range energy in the Severn. What are the potential benefits of that approach of having a pathfinder project?”

“We were talking about workforce shortages and timescales to get these people trained up, and that really benefiting the local economy in Wales. How long will it take to get a skilled workforce to do the construction side and then all these other jobs that are yet to exist?”

“How long will it take?”

“I think, Sue, you mentioned the decommissioning of a lagoon. I just wondered why it had not been repowered rather than decommissioned, or had something else set up in its place. I am just thinking about whether they found it to be effective.”

“Andrew, I was struck by your comment about the turbine in France being the same for 50 years. In our previous evidence session, there was a suggestion that there could be some reindustrialisation that comes from tidal technology, but 50 years does not indicate that lots of turbines will suddenly be required for replace…”

“Somebody used it beforehand.”

“Could I move on to environmental impact? We have heard about the Severn estuary’s ecological and environmental importance, but there is a severe lack of current environmental data. The last survey data that the RSPB presented earlier this afternoon is from 2015. Does that lack of information make the development of a t…”

“You have recommended that a commercial development project in the form of a tidal lagoon be pursued as the first step in developing tidal range energy in the Severn. What are the potential benefits of that approach of having a pathfinder project?”

“We were talking about workforce shortages and timescales to get these people trained up, and that really benefiting the local economy in Wales. How long will it take to get a skilled workforce to do the construction side and then all these other jobs that are yet to exist?”

“How long will it take?”

“Do you have enough people?”

“I think, Sue, you mentioned the decommissioning of a lagoon. I just wondered why it had not been repowered rather than decommissioned, or had something else set up in its place. I am just thinking about whether they found it to be effective.”

“Is that being done under a transfer of the levy?”

“On clean energy jobs, there seems to be a disparity between predicted job numbers and created job numbers. We can talk about a just transition, but if the jobs are not there, there is nothing for anybody to transition into. Do you think there is an issue about the reality of vacancies? You have also talked about the de…”