Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 14 September 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Brendan Gleeson:
First, I am not in any way critical of anybody who takes a court case. A person is perfectly entitled to do that. I refer to what changed in those court cases. Our view had been that where there was mitigation, you could take that into account in determining whether an application needed to be screened in. What changed in those court cases was not that we denied the need to do appropriate assessments but that the circumstances in which they were required changed. That is what happened. It was not that we ignored the requirements.
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