Ms Marie Donnelly:

It requires working much harder. I do not want to sound too much like I am coming from Cork but we must be less Dublin-centric. We need to go out and talk to people in their own areas about what is going on. We need to be able to challenge those who may not have a full understanding of the projects and are against them. We must be able to explain the benefits. People talk about noise from wind turbines. It is important to take people to a turbine and ask whether they can hear it. There is a myth that turbines make noise or cause flicker, as the case may be. It is essential that people are able to feel and touch these structures and not be intimidated by them at a distance. That is a role for us all, including those of us in the council and our colleagues in CRU, and it is a role for politicians, who are, after all, the leaders in society. Any way we can support members in that is something we would like to do.