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
3:05 pm
Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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Yes, a community project, where the 32 farmers involved are stakeholders with Tipperary Energy, and there was not a meig of complaint. It is enthusiastically supported and we do support initiatives like that.
We will have a look at offshore wind energy in the future. As I said, we have published the offshore renewable energy development plan. I hope that if developers come forward with offshore projects they will get a fair wind - no pun intended - but we will see.