Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the last part where the Minister of State said the new SRESS scheme will be announced in the next few weeks. A climate emergency was declared in 2019, as he well knows. The renewable electricity support scheme was introduced in 2018. It is now six years later, and we seem to be limping on and limping on. I am really trying to find out information about the first RESS scheme. I did not ask about that specifically tonight, but my question is based on a series of questions trying to get a handle on the community-based projects. On the specific question asked tonight the Minister of State tells me ten applied and eight remain in the scheme. Can we get any details on where those eight are? What happened to the other two? He then said they are going to progress through different stages and through the market. When and how will that happen? It seems that it is all slowly evolving in a reactive way as opposed to a planned approach to community involvement for maximum effect.

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