Brendan Ryan (Dublin Fingal, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Today we are considering a new Bill, the Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018. Given that the WHO report was commissioned by EU environment Ministers, it would be unfortunate if it were not referred to in some way in the Bill. If the Minister's legal advice is that, in considering the definition of "balanced approach", we cannot extend the provision beyond what is already in EU Regulation No. 598/2014, it has to be open to us as parliamentarians to find some way within the body of the legislation, although not necessarily in the definitions, to refer to this very important work in the context of airport noise in the Union. Perhaps we could determine for Report Stage whether there is another way of referring to the important report of the WHO.