Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Should the Bill give the power to refuse licences for existing abstractors under certain circumstances?

With respect to enforcement, have recommendations been made to the Department concerning what that regime should be? In terms of indefinite licences, is there any other EPA licence type that is indefinite? Given that Ms Gurrie said that the registration process is very simple, why would we not just register everybody? There is a limited requirement. Picking up on the last point made by Ms O'Brien, how is it proposed to deal with the cumulative impact, for example, of several dairy farms that have less than 25 cu. m but are in the same catchment? There are multiples. How will that be dealt with in terms of assessing their impact?