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. Paul Kelly:
Fisheries mitigation and management strategies are quite a common inclusion within the planning application for phase 1 projects. They are generally called planning-stage fisheries mitigation and management strategies that typically set out a protocol for engagement between the fishing community and developers of offshore wind farm projects. They move from the planning stage into the construction stage and then to an operational phase. The strategies are quite a conventional tool to document the commitments from developers in relation to that engagement with the fishing community. They are currently the subject of live planning applications and we still await the outcome of that planning process. They are a common enough deliverable.
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