Telecommunications Infrastructure
Seanad Éireann — 2022-05-24
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Emer Currie (FG), Nominated by the Taoiseach

I will have to go through the reply in detail but I can tell the Minister of State that the telecommunications mast in Castleknock is 15 m and there is a mast in Glaslough which is 19 m, and featured in the latest edition of the Sunday Independent. These masts did not go through the planning process but were a section 254 application so the public did not know about them. The councils have said "No". The mast in Castleknock used a section 254 application, which was rejected by the local authority and An Bord Pleanála overturned that so there is an issue. The telecommunications mast has been located in Castleknock in a prominent area with one of the highest footfalls in the community. The local Tidy Towns committee has spent the last two years trying to reflect the beauty of this picturesque village, so the notion that a 15 m mast can be erected without public consultation or even an awareness by the public is very worrisome.

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Sitting date: 2022-05-24