An Taisce and, in a joint appeal, Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) and Friends of the Earth Ireland (FOTEI), have lodged the third party appeals with An Coimisiún Pleanála

Labour emerged as the party with the best climate action policies in the assessment commissioned by Friends of the Earth.

The situation was complicated, he said, and “sometimes you have to live with the complications, and energy security is a complicated issue.”

Ms Connolly states that “if this planning goes through, it will be met with massive local and national pushback and action”.