Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I take the point that the local authority is the granting authority for an LRD pre-application consultation, but the terrestrial aspect of an offshore renewable comes under the local planning authority as well. I simply request that, when looking at the possibility of the Minister prescribing by regulation types of development, the same attention be paid to energy projects as is paid to LRD projects for the aspect that applies to the local authority. We are building the capacity of the commission weekly and monthly. It would be beneficial to our climate action, energy resilience, surety of supply, etc., to apply the same type of attention to renewable energy projects as to LRDs.