Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 July 2025

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute

2:00 am

Photo of Richard O'DonoghueRichard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent Ireland Party) | Oireachtas source

We can allow another question in a minute. I have another question. I want quick answers, if possible. On wind turbines, there are so many legal challenges against wind turbines at the moment because of the knock-on effect of guidelines. Wind turbines that were put up 15 years ago were only 80 m or 100 m high. They are coming to the end of their shelf life now. A new wind turbine cannot be fit on the same system because they are mast-based. If those companies decide to pull out of this country, who will pay for dismantling those wind turbines? Has that been allowed for in budgets going forward based on the taxes coming in? We are seeing it at the moment. Three turbines in Wexford have been decommissioned. There are 70 turbines in Galway that will be decommissioned. Who will pay?

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