Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 30 November 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed)
Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
My apologies. I forgot to address that issue. The Deputy is correct. We have had difficulty with the guidelines for onshore wind in particular. He will be aware there was a significant amount of difficulty between the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the Department of the Environment and Climate Action. Historically, there were different views on that. We ended up with a solution that was not workable in terms of the application of the WHO guidelines. It was not technically feasible in the context of the way they were drafted. We have a changed approach that will be delivered next year. We need to integrate our regional plans and local authority development plans with our renewable energy and shaping electricity plans. That integration of renewables into the local authority development plans will be one of the other key developments next year.
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