Dr. Eimear Cotter:

Under public consultation we have agreement, and on the existing licensing for abstraction, head 11, subhead (3) says that an application for a licence should be advertised publicly by the person making the application. Our treating of it is that the public participation elements, which are so crucial to the licensing process, are set out in the scheme of the Bill, and further detailed steps will be set out under the regulations to come under head 13.