Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 February 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Electricity Generation and Export: Discussion

3:35 pm

Ms Agnes Doolan:

This will be my final sentence. I came a long way today from west Offaly.

Dr. Colette Bonner of the Department of Health wrote to Mr. Frank Gallagher of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government on 23 December. She told him that there was a consistent cluster of symptoms related to wind turbine syndrome among a number of people in the vicinity of industrial wind turbines. According to her, there were specific risk factors associated with the syndrome. As such, people needed to be treated appropriately and sensitively, as the symptoms could be debilitating. I would like to know what the Government is doing about this.