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

Mr. Mark Griffin:

That is not the reason. It is a number of years off because of the cost of the technology, rather than whether a consenting process is in place. There are a number of schemes that have already consented, which got consent under existing foreshore legislation. There is nothing to prevent them from a consenting process moving forward, but I pointed out earlier there is still a significant difference between the cost of the megawatt-hour support that is required for onshore wind as compared with offshore wind, but we expect it to converge somewhat over the next number of years.