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. Noel Cunniffe:
We can provide the Deputy with details on that after the meeting. We know there have been examples, such as with the National Parks and Wildlife Service and in pre-application engagement with organisations like the maritime search and rescue in the Coast Guard, where if they had more resourcing, perhaps some of the issues that were asked for in the further information requests could have been sorted out in advance. We can provide the Deputy with more details on that. Generally speaking, as a sector, we are happy with the level of robustness that An Coimisiún Pleanála has taken with the planning applications and the scale of the requests for information that have been received, but we need to see a speedier turnaround from the other State agencies.
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