Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Does this refer to farmers or people who drive freight vehicles? They will be impacted on greatly. Part of the issue is selling the message and the policy and ensuring the economic impact of the changes on people in the workplace will be reduced as much as possible or that they will be assisted and supported in the changes they will have to make in order that the economy will not suffer and that the work will still be done. Is that not the reality? That is where we must get to. I have no issue with these policies, but the problem is that when one tries to put renewable energy infrastructure in place in a rural community, there is absolute war. Thousands of people object and there is hassle over it. Therefore, a huge message must be sold. It must be seen that there is a real economic benefit to the communities in which the infrastructure is placed. They pay the price for the energy that is supplied from A to B as it does affect their quality of life. These are the issues we must address in the bigger picture.