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

Mr. Daryl Kennedy:

If there were substantial jobs we would expect the Minister Deputy Bruton to be down in Tullamore and Mullingar announcing them. There will be significant numbers of jobs in the short term in construction only but the figures are confusing because they are given out in man years as opposed to a specific number of jobs. In the longer term, in terms of operation and maintenance, the industry guide is that there will be approximately 0.3 jobs per turbine, so a wind farm of ten turbines is likely to provide three jobs and they are generally not local.