543. Deputy Willie Penrose asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 476 to 480, inclusive, of 17 June 2014 and the assertion therein that the draft revisions of the wind energy guidelines take into account the 2009 World Health Organization's findings regarding night time noise, the way this is so, when the WHO identified the following: that the population should not be exposed to night noise levels greater than 40 dB of Lnight outside, as measured on the LAeq noise measurement indicator; that it should be possible to sleep with a bedroom window slightly open (a reduction from outside to inside of 15 dB); when the noise is composed of a large proportion of low frequency sounds a still lower guideline value is recommended; and when assessing the effects of environmental noise on people it is relevant to consider the importance of background noise level, because the draft guidelines fail to give effect to those four fundamental WHO criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29773/14]

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543. Deputy Willie Penrose asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 476 to 480, inclusive, of 17 June 2014 and the assertion therein that the draft revisions of the wind energy guidelines take into account the 2009 World Health Organization's findings regarding night time noise, the way this is so, when the WHO identified the following: that the population should not be exposed to night noise levels greater than 40 dB of Lnight outside, as measured on the LAeq noise measurement indicator; that it should be possible to sleep with a bedroom window slightly open (a reduction from outside to inside of 15 dB); when the noise is composed of a large proportion of low frequency sounds a still lower guideline value is recommended; and when assessing the effects of environmental noise on people it is relevant to consider the importance of background noise level, because the draft guidelines fail to give effect to those four fundamental WHO criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29773/14]

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