Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

To comment on Deputy Penrose's Bill, where wind farms have developed, and this is an environmental issue as well as everything else, and the access to the grid has been developed over huge regions companies have engaged in consultation with the locals and always encountered difficulties.

An issue arises also about access to the grid which I am aware the energy regulator is examining with regard to biomass and gas fuel stations in Tarbert and Rhode, and in Lumcloon. It is grand for the Minister to say that turbines are being built in a certain place and that people will have access to the grid. My experience is that the turbine planning process and the integration might have gone ahead but access to the grid subsequently became a huge problem.

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