Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I do not share the same faith with the Minister of State, although I share the importance of community involvement. I will repeat that this has been going on from 2018 to 2024 and we are limping on and limping on. I have no handle on which communities have been successful. I want to share that with my own constituents in Galway. The private sector has a huge offshore plan in Sceirde that is causing great community division with the scale and size of it offshore. We will come to that another day. We are here talking about success stories in theory, but I do not know where they are. I do not know how many relate to solar or how many relate to wind, what is the involvement or what are the challenges. I know that the auction-based method did not suit. We knew from day one that it was never going to suit. Indeed, the total corporatisation does not suit either, but that is perhaps a discussion for another day. Will the Minister of State guide me? I am not tired asking questions, but it is a slow and painstaking way of trying to elicit information that should be upfront. If these are success stories, we should be celebrating them, learning from them and rolling them out more.

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