Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

What is the biggest barrier to this? Is it feeding into the grid, local objections to planning, or ignorance of this process? I put myself into the final category. I remember seeing campaign signs, ten or 15 years ago, around various parts of rural Ireland. I am pretty sure one of them was in west Cork. I certainly remember them in Mayo and Roscommon which would be on my route to Louisburgh where I have been going for 25 years. Is ignorance one of the biggest barriers? If one looks at the number of plants and amount of megawatts generated in other jurisdications, versus any attempt to generate electricity by any initiative of any farmer or landowner here, one is met with indifference by the grid, because one cannot feed into it. Regardless of any ambition 11 or 12 years ago, we still have that barrier today.