Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 January 2016

Public Accounts Committee

2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 13 - The Development of Eircode, the National Postcode System

10:00 am

Mr. Mark Griffin:

On the concerns people are expressing, the primary concerns are noise and shadow flicker. The concern about visual amenity is probably of less importance. If there is a focus on noise, what one will expect in terms of the outcome is the setting of a mandatory minimum setback distance, which might vary depending on proximity to noise sensitive locations, towns and so on.