Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Denis Naughten, and I are working on the wind energy guidelines and may be in a position to bring something to Cabinet next week. If we do, a judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union now requires that we undertake an environmental impact assessment of any new guidelines, which will involve some consultation early next year. It will, therefore, be a few months before new guidelines are settled and agreed because we are required to go through a process that had not been anticipated. However, getting a draft agreed that can then be subject to environmental impact assessment is a priority for us.

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