Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 5 September 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion
10:00 am
Ms Justice Mary Laffoy:
The assembly did not go into wind energy and its divisiveness in the community. That is covered to a large extent by our planning laws and regulations and EU directives and regulations, including the habitats directive. All of those come into play regarding onshore wind energy. The law is the law. When one gets into planning law and EU law, one gets into complicated areas so we did not look at that.
Deputy Butler's second question really concerns how we get people to behave. Is that not really what she is asking about? That is a very important question. We must have laws that make people behave and have penalties if they do not behave, for example, dumping plastic in a canal.
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