Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 November 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
9:00 am
Mr. Mark Griffin:
We are bringing forward a further renewable energy support, RES, scheme which is geared at assisting us towards meeting our 2030 targets on the renewable energy front. What we will be providing for in that is a facility for communities to come together and involve themselves as part of that development, take a shareholding in the wind farm development and that particular part is under development at the moment. We have a RES scheme that we expect to be in a position to launch in the first part of next year. A significant part of that will involve community involvement in the schemes themselves, whether they are development led or whether it is communities coming together. For example, in the Tipperary energy scheme they were putting forward a project themselves. We will have to look at a mechanism to fund that as well.
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