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

The Minister, Deputy Naughten, and I have had a number of meetings on this. We are close to agreement at this stage.

We will hopefully be in a position within the next few weeks to publish draft guidelines. Those guidelines will then undergo a consultation process, which we are required to facilitate under EU law. At the end of that process, we will be able to finalise a new set of wind energy guidelines. The process is under way.

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