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. Gabriel D'Arcy:

I invite Deputy Murphy and the committee down to our Mountlucas wind farm, which is currently under construction. It is a rather good template for what a large-scale wind farm, developed in post-industrial peatland that is a long way away from anywhere, looks like. There is some habitation but it is probably the most sparsely populated area of the midlands. Deputy Murphy will be familiar with it because it is in west Kildare and east Offaly.