Energy Production
Dail Éireann — 2023-09-28
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Ossian Smyth (GP), Dún Laoghaire

All the correct procedures were followed. As the Deputy is aware, the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications is a prescribed body for making submissions on planning applications and it is natural on such a large planning application that the Department made a submission. The decision for An Bord Pleanála was straightforward and it followed the correct rules. I do not think there is any room for legal challenge and I do not expect there to be a challenge to what happened. If there is, I expect that challenge to fail.
There really is a great opportunity for north Kerry and the whole region to achieve a long-term and successful energy future with economic activity based on renewable energy and storage. That will happen in the area. It will not happen by looking back to fossil fuels. That is not the way it is going to work.

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Sitting date: 2023-09-28