Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Will a licence issued under head 13 - "Regulations on the licensing of abstractions" - apply to an abstraction that is already in place and, therefore, is not subject to an environmental impact assessment under the correct name for that but is subject to consideration of its effect under a number of characteristics of environmental impact assessment? Current abstractions prior to the commencement of this legislation will be subject to some sort of environmental impact assessment, but it will not be called-----