Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

I understand Deputy Barrett's interest in this area as Chairman of the Joint Committee on Climate Change and Energy Security. I assure him that the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources is concerned to deal with the legal complexities in relation to foreshore matters. He is trying to develop a modern statutory framework that meets the business requirements of the sustainable energy industry. The Deputy will agree that the Minister has a particular interest in that industry. He is doing all he can to draft that legislation and subsequently to introduce it. I understand it might not be introduced this year. Hopefully it will be introduced in the new year.

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