Mr. Ronan Gallagher:

The Deputy made a valid point about the Bill being cumbersome. The purpose of the duplication is to ensure that when the current operating restrictions, which are a result of planning permissions, are put through this new regulatory regime if there is cause to change them as a result of the application of the noise regulation it is safe to do so and that it can be done without being seen to undermine the planning process. Essentially what we are doing is looking again at the second runway through the prism of Regulation No. 598 and acknowledging there are planning related restrictions. The reason for that clunky bit to make sure we are not seen as just scratching off planning related pieces that the airport or the Department did not like. It is clunky to start with. That is not how it will happen in future. All that stuff will fall off. There is still some work to be done in getting to a Bill to put to the House which is clear about that interplay between planning and Regulation No. 598. The Deputy is right to identify it as a bit clunky. It will be necessarily clunky at the start and we hope it will be a bit less clunky when we get to the Bill stage.