Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 October 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Location of Wind Turbines: Discussion

3:40 pm

Photo of James BannonJames Bannon (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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Regarding the employment opportunities that will be created, the figure of 55,000 jobs that is bandied around, we are told that the industrial development authority, IDA is very much in support of this. Have the witnesses made contact with the IDA on its claims that this number of jobs will be created?