Blue Ireland advocates for offshore wind to be done properly.  Ecosystem-based Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) and appropriate siting of offshore developments must ensure we optimise benefits and minimise damaging impacts on the marine environment. The issue is that, as a result of lax permitting regimes, projects in Ireland are proposed on sites self-selected by developers, with no regard for impacts on marine life, habitats, coastal communities or the Irish coastline. Many of the sites were targeted 25 years ago, when the industry was in its infancy. With advances in turbine technology and an increased understanding of the safeguards that are required if such major infrastructure is to be sited in the dynamic marine environment, the near-shore sites earmarked by developers a quarter of a century are no longer the best option.