Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

To illustrate the level of concern, Professor Alun Evans, who has written in the British Medical Journal, wrote to the residents of each Cork, stating: "I greatly sympathise with you in your plight. Quite simply your life will be ruined if this goes ahead."

A Government intervention is required. The 2006 planning guidelines are outdated and were never framed in the context of the technology that is emerging. Will the Government introduce legislation to govern the development of large-scale industrial wind farms? As a matter of urgency, will the Government accelerate the updating of the guidelines to deal with this new technology?

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