Gas Safety (Amendment) Bill 2026: Second Stage
Dail Éireann — 2026-01-14
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Paul Lawless (AON), Mayo

We can see from the documents on the website of An Coimisiún Pleanála that, on 19 November 2020 during the pre-application consultation phase of one of the proposed development sites in Galway, a meeting took place between the prospective applicant, the design team and Galway County Council. A certain individual is listed as present at that meeting representing the wind farm company. Luke Silke has declared and shown me documents that this individual is now working for An Coimisiún Pleanála. Is there not a huge conflict of interest in this regard? In further documents, we can see that a separate individual was working for MKO-----

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Sitting date: 2026-01-14