Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 February 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Justin Moran:

To put that in context, let us say you are talking about a wind farm in respect of which the planing permission gets quashed and the matter goes back like that. Say it is a typical 60 MW wind farm that has lost three years. That is 180 MW or 200,000 tonnes of carbon that we just threw out into the atmosphere, which already has enough tonnes of carbon-----