Darren Sherry
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I think it's going to improve the long-term timelines.
But it's going to take a little while to work through the system to actually see the improvements on the ground.
In terms of people, the repair and maintenance part, so about 50%.
So we're currently 150 staff.
This announcement today is going to bring us to 215 staff.
About half of that staff work in the repair, maintenance and asset management of wind projects in the UK and Ireland.
And the other half are working across consultancy, measurement, general support services into the renewable energy sector.
So about half of our overall business is in physical maintenance and termites.
Well, thankfully, as I mentioned earlier, we do almost four years of feasibility studies, extensive bird studies, etc., before we build a project.
So we won't build a project if we did feel that it was going to do any harm.
I suppose there are challenges in the sentiment coming from the US for the US itself.
Thankfully, we have no exposure to that market, so it's not bothering us for the moment.
Absolutely.
You have to have huge sympathy for a business that has invested in good faith into a market where the policy changes halfway through that investment.
But as we said, thankfully, Galtech, we're quite active in Europe, quite active in Africa, but the US has never been an attractive market to us.
They're going to be across Ireland, mostly regional Ireland.
The head office is in Cavan, so the majority will be there.
But we're working from home, all of those things.
Lots of people working from lots of interesting locations these days.