Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht
Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals
2:40 pm
Mr. Philip Nugent:
We would maintain that they were already doing the environmental impact assessment anyway. We have communicated the new regulations to all local authorities by way of circular letter. We are also preparing statutory guidance, under section 28 of the planning Act, on carrying out EIA by planning authorities. That will take into account the most recent changes to the Act to transpose Article 3.
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