Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 April 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Energy Plant Certification: Commission for the Regulation of Utilities
Lisa Chambers (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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I thank our guests for their presentations. We appreciate the opportunity to ask questions. As my colleague outlined, this represents significant investment in the west of Ireland and County Mayo. There has been a significant outlay of investment. This project was hugely welcomed by the community so we are very disappointed to see that we are at this stage.
I understand that a question has already been asked around what changed. Besides the name and the entity, what changed in the project? I take on board what Mr. Melvin said about the fuel composition changing. Did anything else change because in her initial statement, Ms MacEvilly stated that the assessment is based on specific information? When the first application was made, what specific information that was provided in 2012 was not provided in 2018 or have the CRU's processes changed in the intervening period?