Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 October 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Renewable Energy Directive: Discussion

4:00 pm

Mr. Kevin Brady:

With regard to Article 19 and the timeframe for this change, it is still at working group level and it has to move to the Council, so it will probably be 2018, 2019 or 2020. It is probably more appropriate to think of wind farms and Article 19 in terms of the renewable electricity support scheme and the next support scheme for the next wind farms that will be built. The key point is that this is under public consultation and has not yet been finalised, so the terms and conditions of that scheme, what they might allow the wind farm developers to do and so forth are still under consideration and discussion. That point must be taken into consideration.

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.