Anthony Lawlor (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have been asking this question for the past eight months, in response to which I continually get the same waffle from the Department. When will these guidelines be published? The 7,500 people who made submissions on the guidelines have been led up the garden path for the past 18 months. We need this decision to be made now. The aim of the Strategy for Renewable Energy 2012-2020 is to ensure best practice, planning and permitted procedures and coherence between environmental and renewable energy objectives. The strategy refers to willing public acceptance around environmental and other impacts and securing benefits for local communities. None of this has happened. A year and nine months later, the 7,500 people who made submissions on the guidelines are still waiting for them to be published. When will a decision be made to publish those guidelines?

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