Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The strategic environmental assessment, SEA, looked generally at the potential environmental impact of developing energy resources in the offshore. An issue arose in relation to oil rigs that could potentially arise in relation to the Dublin Array project. It was suggested in the context of the oil rig that the SEA covered the requirement for an environmental impact assessment, which we thought was preposterous because what is needed is an impact assessment of what the oil rig might do.