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- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: Applications still are being made and such applications will be dealt with under the old guidelines.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: Communities have real and genuine fears and I am merely representing them in the Chamber.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: The Minister is meeting them in delegations with Government Deputies on an ongoing basis.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: The Minister is also aware that there are real and genuine concerns.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: I will ask the Minister one simple question. When will the Government - Fine Gael and the Labour Party - produce its wind energy guidelines and will they be put on a statutory footing?
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: Who will win the argument? Will it be the Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, or the Minister, Deputy Alex White? What will the setback distance be?
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: I am standing up for the communities who have real fears.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: Will the Minister answer the question I asked?
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: No, it is a Government decision.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: The Minister is representing the Government in the Chamber.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: Compare Fianna Fáil's climate change Bill with that of the Government.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: The Minister has not answered the question. What about the guidelines?
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: In the past week global leaders have attended the Paris summit on climate change. President Obama spoke about the need for this generation to act on climate change policy because if it does not it will be too late for future generations. It is a challenge and an opportunity for all of us to do what is right. It involves everyone in urban and rural areas taking up this challenge. Wind...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: As the scale of the turbines increases communities are justifiably concerned about the noise, the shadow flicker, the distance from the turbines-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: -----and the impact this will have on the quality of their lives and communities. New draft revisions to the noise setbacks and the shadow flicker in the 2006 wind energy guidelines were published two years ago this month. These required turbines to have a noise limit of 40 decibels and a setback of 500 m and a complete elimination of shadow flicker. The Minister for the Environment,...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: Since then various Ministers have said the new guidelines would be published in 2014. We are now in the last month of 2015 and we have no new guidelines. County development plans are being amended and overturned for taking a proactive stance and introducing local policy on wind energy in the absence of national policy.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy White, has changed the Renewable Energy Feed in Tariff, REFIT 2 scheme to enable-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: -----existing applicants who are experiencing difficulty in the planning process.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government has said------
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: If the Deputies would listen to what I am saying they would not need circulation of anything.