Seymour Crawford (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)

All I received was what I got directly from Brussels. What progress has been made in encouraging wind farms? Many farmers in a part of my constituency whom I will not name have signed up for years to have wind farms put in place but the regulations are such that they have not allowed it to happen. The people who are building the wind farms are now in Scotland instead of Ireland. The Minister of State, Deputy Browne, made a strong point at the beginning of his analysis that the Department of Agriculture and Food is only one of a number of Ministries involved in alternative energy. Can those Ministries be brought together to ensure there is direct action to compensate for the present high price of oil?

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