Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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Question 282: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if the Government has a claim to part of the territory where a company (details supplied) is planning to develop an off-shore wind farm on the area north of the Causeway coast known as the Tunes Plateau; the way in which the transmission of power from this windfarm will be handled and to which jurisdiction will the increase in renewable power be credited. [8799/06]

John Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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The persons considering developing a wind farm at the location in question were informed that the development and operation of such a facility there could only be carried out in accordance with the terms of a foreshore lease granted under the Foreshore Acts.

If an application for a foreshore lease were made, it would have to address among other things the arrangements to be made for transmission of the energy generated. However, no application for a foreshore lease has been received to date. The national statistical value of the electricity produced would have to be considered further after the point of connection of the wind farm to an electricity network and the final planned region of consumption of that electricity are known.