Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion
2:00 pm
Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent)
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There is one other point. This offshore wind issue has been ongoing since approximately 2014, and the legislation needs to be updated. As the Department with responsibility for climate change, does it see that as a problem in dealing with climate change issues? We are now in 2018, which is four or five years down the line, and it will be another couple of years before it will be dealt with. Does the Department see that as an issue? I am not asking Mr. Griffin to call his colleagues in the Department into disrepute but I ask if he sees it as a problem.