Renewable Energy Generation
Dail Éireann — 2023-09-28
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Catherine Connolly (IND), Galway West

I welcome that it has gone into the non-competitive section and that the Department is working on this. My difficulty is that I have no analysis before me as to what happened in RESS 1 and 2, where community groups were involved. Is there documentation, data or an analysis of what did and did not work which led the Department to what theoretically would be a very welcome change in terms of moving into the non-competitive area?
My trust is at an all-time low. We are facing a precipice in regard to climate action and we need urgent action. I will digress a tiny bit, but my comments are related to my question. I am often very critical of it, but Galway City Council did its job in 2021 regarding a decarbonisation zone. It set out the zone, but two and a half years later nothing has happened. I live in the Claddagh and know Galway very well. I was born and bred there. I see huge opportunities for community-led projects to make communities independent, but we need an analysis from the Department in terms of how decisions are being made.

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Sitting date: 2023-09-28