Pat Casey (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The programme for Government includes reference to climate change. A controversial decision was taken by An Bord Pleanála to grant planning permission for a large-scale wind farm on the iconic hills around Aughrim. In making the decision, the board used what we all agree to be the outdated wind energy guidelines that go back to 2006 and ignored the views and concerns of the people of south Wicklow, the county development plan and the fact that Wicklow had already refused this on two occasions. The decisions could have been so different for the people of south Wicklow if the Government had kept its promise to issue new wind energy guidelines in quarter 1 of 2018, as promised in June 2017. Where are the promised guidelines?

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