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Danielle Conaghan
+353 1 920 1082
[email protected]
Ten Earlsfort Terrace
Dublin 2
D02 T380
Ireland
Danielle is a partner and Head of the Environment and Planning Group, and is a founder member of the firm’s Food and Agribusiness Group.
Danielle has specialist expertise and uses her project management skills in advising on matters including the decision-making processes from pre-consultation and application stages through to oral hearing, construction and operational stages and securing and assessing the risk of providing project-financing. Danielle regularly presents at national Environmental, Planning and Energy conferences; lectures on the Law Society of Ireland Environmental Diploma Course and is co-author, with Dr. Yvonne Scannell, of the annual environmental chapter of ‘Construction Projects: Law and Practice’, published by Thomson Reuters.
Relevant Experience
- Advised on the €400M Dublin Waste to Energy PPP Project on planning and environmental consents, financing, refinancing and operations
- Advised on the consenting, financing, development and / or operation of over 1,500MW of wind projects in Ireland
- Advised on Bord Na Móna’s successful SID application for an MBT Facility, County Kildare
- Advising the State in connection with the consenting and regulation of upstream petroleum including offshore consents for the Corrib Gas Field and the CER on development and implementation of the Petroleum Safety Framework
- Advising Irish Water on the Water Supply Project – Dublin & Midland Region Project, and on many other water abstraction and wastewater projects
- Advised Fingal County Council and its technical advisors on the Greater Dublin Drainage Project
- Advised Bord Iascaigh Mhara on its aquaculture and foreshore licence applications for the Deep Sea Project in Galway Bay
- Advised Dunbia on its successful planning application for an expansion of its slaughtering facility in County Meath
- Advised NDFA and DoES on planning and environmental issues affecting/delaying the procurement and delivery of 7 projects in the €500 million Second Level Schools and Third Level Education PPP Programmes
- Advised on the HSE’s successful SID application for the National Forensic Mental Health Hospital
Insights Blog
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New Guidance on Deployment of Renewable Energy
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Offshore Renewable Energy: Government consults on South Coast Designated Maritime Area Plan and ORESS 2.1
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Renewable Electricity: RESS 4 Auction
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Ireland’s Future Framework for Offshore Renewable Energy
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Back to the Future - CJEU confirm mitigation measures can be taken into account in AA screening
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Government Policy on Phase 2 of Offshore Wind Development in Ireland
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