Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs
Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Robert McCabe:
I will be brief. First, it works. In fairness, it has worked over three years. We have built more trusting and respectful relationships that are productive, so it does work. I am always wary of expanding it too much because that would become challenging and there would be too many voices in the room. It needs a number of groups rather than trying to expand one large group. There are not a lot of lessons in international best practice on it. I thought there would be. I thought it would be easy and I could just ring counterparts around Europe but there are not that many. Ireland is actually doing really good work on this.
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