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. 6:
In page 14, to delete lines 31 to 34 and substitute the following:
"(b) publish, prior to deciding the application to which the exemption relates, a notice of the exemption, any requirements referred to in paragraph (a), a summary of public and authority submissions, and the Agency’s reasoned conclusions on the main issues raised—
(i) on a website maintained by it or on its behalf, and
(ii) in a national newspaper,".
Mar gheall ar leasaithe a 6, it is to delete lines 31 to 34 and substitute that it would publish, prior to deciding the application to which the exemption relates, a notice of the exemption, any requirements referred to in the paragraph, a summary of public and authority submissions, and the agency’s reasoned conclusions on the main issues raised, on a website or in a national newspaper. This is to increase public participation and transparency, to amend the EPA Act and the Waste Management Act to ensure that views of the public are taken into account, and to help with public buy-in and reduce the likelihood of objections.

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