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

I thank the Minister of State. I accept the premise of his critique of the amendment. In response, while he is right as a general rule, in many aspects of planning and, indeed, in some aspects of licensing, prescribed organisations are given the preferential treatment of being statutorily included in the process whereby they are notified of the opportunity to engage in a way that a general member of the public would be. Is it the Minister of State’s intention, for example, on the passing of this Bill, to have any list of prescribed organisations for this section, by way of statutory instrument, for example? Is that one way of dealing with the concerns?

Can the Minister of State give us some indication, because again I am not clear from this section, of the length of time of the public consultation period? I ask because I am more than happy to withdraw this list of amendments, subject to the Minister of State’s responses.