I also express my condolences to Senator Craughwell on his sad loss and also to the family of former Senator Enda Bonner from Donegal.

Another summer has gone by and Carrabane National School in east Galway is still in limbo when it comes to its new-build primary school. It is disappointing to be back here, with kids back at school for yet another school year, and still have that bit of uncertainty around the future of those students and where they are going to be located in the coming months and years. They literally just need the letter of intent. They have gone through the entire school-build process from start to finish twice. They had to go back to square one on the planning permission and went through it a second time. This is decades in the making to get to the point where they can hopefully get diggers on the ground in the coming weeks. Even the planning and building unit, PBU, in a joint Oireachtas committee, admitted that this is an exceptionally long process that has been drawn out and that the people in the local area should not have had to go through the timeframe they have had to go through.

Builders do not magically appear on site. There is a lead-in time where they have to plan out their first steps once they get on site. As we head into the winter months, we urgently need to get them on site as quickly as possible. It is just to get that letter of intent issued to the people locally and give them certainty that their school is finally being built. They are crying out for it and we have gone on so long that I have had to raise this numerous times in the House. People are really frustrated. I would like to see this happen immediately. If we have to talk to the Minister to talk through why there are such delays in this process causing such anger in the community, that could be something we have to look at.

I wish to raise the issue of wind energy guidelines. Tonight, in Killalaghton Hall there will be a meeting of the public to discuss the proposed wind farm in their area, for people in Killalaghton and the neighbouring parishes like Mullagh and Kiltormer. It is 20 years since 2006 when wind energy guidelines were last updated. Since then, the average size of a windmill has gone from 70 m to upwards of 180 m, which is huge and nearly a trebling of the size of a windmill that is then put into a local community. There is uncertainty out there. People want clarity on what the new rules are going to be. They want them urgently so there is a process in place, people know where they stand, and that there is a very clear process by which companies get the go-ahead to put windmills and wind farms into communities, especially in east Galway, where we see a huge influx of applications for planning permission for them.