John Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)

I thank Senator Ulick Burke and Senator Kitt for raising this issue. The development of a windfarm at Derrybrien by a subsidiary company of the ESB is a day to day operational matter for the company and not one in which the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Deputy Dermot Ahern, has a function.

However, as regards the question of compliance with planning permission, this is a matter for Galway County Council. I know that it has arranged to have an expert examination carried out immediately into the likely cause of the landslide.