Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 October 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion
Mr. John McElligott:
When permission was granted in 2008, this project did not have PCI accreditation. A new application is being made and this time when the planning application is scrutinised, there will be a different context. A planning application for the FSRU will be made as a project of common interest with all its consequences. It will need a pipeline and must be put on the ten-year network development plan. It must have access to infrastructure funds and may even have public funding in the end, and not just community funding, although that is yet to be determined. It is setting the framework for future development consent.