Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 January 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Meeting Ireland’s Targets under the 2020 Climate and Energy Package: Discussion

11:30 am

Ms Marian Troy:

I wish to address the question on the consent process. From a developer's point of view efficiency is always sought after but we recognise that the process needs to be robust, defensible and have public involvement in the planning process as well. The projects that we are involved in are in a process already. We know the Departments are looking at a maritime and foreshore Bill for offshore infrastructure, which is very positive, but an ask that we have is that in the meantime the projects in the system are not stalled because for all the points we have made we need them to deliver soon to meet our targets.