Ms Mary Kelly:

This Bill specifies that the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government or the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine will be in charge of the lease or licence. That is the property management side. One would still have to get a lease or licence from that Department but the entire planning and development consent will go completely to An Bord Pleanála for the bigger projects. There will be only one EIA with no duplication. The Minister who is giving the lease or licence, which is a property rights issue, will do that completely divorced from any environmental impact assessment which will be all done by An Bord Pleanála.