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

Sarah O'Reilly (Aontú)

I will come back to what Deputy Mac Lochlainn spoke about earlier with regard to fishers and the potential loss that they see from this because of the effects on their fishing grounds. Fishers need to be reassured because they feel they were sold out previously. In relation to the developers' community benefit funds, will they acknowledge that the people most affected will be fishers?

Reference was made earlier to international investors. We need to protect the Irish taxpayer if we are investing in offshore wind farms.

A wind farm in Jutland was decommissioned recently. Do our guests know why that happened?

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