Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Report and Final Stages
Dail Éireann — 2026-01-14
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Pa Daly (SF), Kerry

I move amendment No. 4:
In page 14, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following:
"(d) publish a notice of the request for an exemption, accompanied by the information provided under subsection (1), on a website maintained by it or on its behalf and in a national newspaper, inviting submissions from the public within a period of not less than 30 days;
(e) consider all submissions or observations received under paragraph (d) and publish a reasoned report addressing the material issues raised.".
Mar gheall ar leasaithe a 4 agus a 11, they provide, on page 14, between lines 18 and 19, that a notice would be published about the exemption. Amendment No. 4 will amend the EPA Act and the Waste Management Act to increase transparency so that the public can access the information regarding the granting of exemptions from an environmental impact assessment.
The purpose and the thinking behind it is to facilitate public consultation and mandate the publication of a report to address the issues raised as part of the consultation so that all submissions or observations, which were received under paragraph (d), would be considered and a reasoned report addressing the material issues would be raised.

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