Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 1 April 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Electricity Generation: Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources

4:05 pm

Photo of Pat RabbittePat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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We have different personnel working on different aspects of this. The people working on planning are not the people dealing with the economics of it or dealing with the regulatory side of it. We have given the people dealing with the planning an injunction to address that issue. Do they come up with a one-size-fits-all? I have not made up my mind on that yet. There might be an argument for different models, even if one has that disparity, about which the Vice Chairman talks. For example, the Templederry example is very attractive. There is a world of difference when one meets people who say, "Look at what we have created, it is a nice little local enterprise and we are earning a few bob from it".