Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 February 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Danielle Conaghan:

I am happy to take that. Section 184 is a recognition that renewable energy projects - at a European level and now at a national level for the first time in the planning Bill - must proceed because of imperative reasons of overriding public interest. That public interest is in the decarbonisation of the country and beyond. It is an injection into the planning legislation for the first time in Irish law of what is already in a Council regulation that took effect in January of this year to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy. It injects the balancing of interests.

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