Mr. Graham Doyle:

The matter is now closed. The last EU fine was paid in March 2023. It was €1.2 million. The retrospective substitute consent issue that was introduced into legislation in 2010 was where that particular wind farm should have required an environmental impact assessment, EIA, when it was originally permitted. We have now integrated the whole EIA issue, the habitats and birds directives, much more into the planning Act and into the regulations around that. We have also issued enhanced guidance with regard to EIAs and the need for greater awareness and compliance around it to try to eliminate a situation like that happening again. Once the substitute consent issue was dealt with and once the wind farm was essentially decommissioned, we got to the end of the case with the Commission. The last fine was in March and, as I said, we have taken some measures to make sure the State does not end up in that space again.