Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Communities must come first in everything we do and no community should be dumped on, to pick up on the Deputy's wording. There is a wider strategic move to offshore and away from onshore. There will still be onshore wind development but there are certain capacity limits to that, including the needs of communities, the requirements of the grid and the fact that the efficiency, capacity and power resource is in the north-west Atlantic in particular. The further north and north west we go, the more that power is available.