Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State. There are two projects in my constituency at the moment where the size of the turbines is far beyond anything that was contemplated back in 2006. Further information has come from research on the noise. It is called sonic noise, which is a silent noise that affects people. There is also the question of the proximity to residents. All of this information is coming out in the vacuum. Where there are hundreds of houses within 1 km of one of these projects, the Minister of State can just imagine how communities are rising up against such projects. The promoters of these projects are not actually communicating other than dropping something in a letterbox. They are also being slick with the landowners when talking to them. They are not doing any public consultation or actually engaging with communities.

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