Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party)
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Objective 75 is aimed at addressing that to make sure every county has its allocation, knows what it is going to do and stops what we have heard about anecdotally, whereby how halfway through a process or an assessment, with the zoning done, the wind development does not go ahead. We need to tighten up on that.

I thank everyone for their time today. It has been very helpful to us. Hopefully, some of us will be back to pass the national planning framework at some point in the future. I thank everybody for their attendance today. I also thank the Department officials, with whom we have had considerable engagement in recent years. They have always been very willing to attend and have been of great assistance to us. I thank them for that. I thank the representatives from the Climate Change Advisory Council. We badly need them to keep pushing us to do more and to keep issuing research and guidance to us.

The committee will meet in private session at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, 12 November.