Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 February 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Electricity Generation and Export: Discussion

5:35 pm

Mr. Kevin O'Donovan:

Part of the environmental assessment process involves having landscape architects. They examine the siting of the turbines, the right landscape for them and the landscapes that may have more capacity to site turbines. Their role is to assess the suitability of land. It is more a case of identifying whether the lands have the capacity to absorb turbine development.