Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 8:

In page 11, to delete lines 32 to 39 and substitute the following:

“(2)(a) Subject to paragraph (b), where the Agency receives an application referred to in subsection (1), the Agency shall decide, based on its regulatory experience and taking into account—

(i) the magnitude of expected or potential doses of radiation, and

(ii) the complexity of the relevant activity to which the application relates, whether it is registration or a licence which would be appropriate to be granted in respect of the relevant activity concerned.

(b) The Minister may, in regulations made under section 30(1) or (2), provide in respect of a relevant activity that only a licence may be granted and, where provision is so made, the Agency shall, where it receives an application referred to in subsection (1) in respect of the relevant activity, consider the application on the basis that only a licence would be appropriate to be granted in respect of that relevant activity.”.