Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 12 July 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed)

Photo of Joe FlahertyJoe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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There is some concern with onshore wind farm protest groups, for want of a better description, who are motivated by the best will of their local community, that this is a backdoor effort to change the guidelines that are there to make it easier for onshore wind farms. Have Ms Graham seen anything done at either EU level or in making our guidelines more robust, that is changing the guidelines to allow that to happen?