Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

How many sections of the European directive 2019/944 on the common rules for the Internal Market for electricity have been transposed into Irish law? Will the Taoiseach confirm or check that the community elements of the directive have been so transposed? I am anxious to ensure there is potential for large-scale community projects which would, for example, be catered for in the event of Bord na Móna lands being returned to communities which provided those lands to Bord na Móna when that opportunity arose in the 1940s.

Now that the community gain is not what it was then and not what had been envisaged in the intervening period, this now offers an opportunity of that magnitude and that nature. It is imperative that the relative directives are transposed into Irish law to cater for a pilot scheme of that nature being allowed to proceed.

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