Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 July 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy

Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector

2:00 am

Mr. Cathal Marley:

The new planning Act will definitely help. I have no issues with that. Our experience is that a lot of stuff has moved through planning a lot better, which is good. The bigger issue is about critical strategic infrastructure. The integrity of the planning system needs to be maintained but we need to move things through the process more quickly. It is not just the planning. We are finding that even when we get planning, we have a separate issue of landowner access. That is probably a bigger issue for critical infrastructure for us at the moment.

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