Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Okay. In fairness to everybody on the committee, most of us are living in the country and we understand it but there is a block there. I am not going to come in here and tell the organisations we know how to solve it. The only way it will be solved is to haul in one of the chiefs who did the programme for Government and tell them this cannot keep going the way it is because there are too many jobs at stake. That is me being honest with our guests. We cannot go promising the sun, moon and stars. We will highlight it but the problem going on here at the moment is there is not the will and the organisations need the legislation. I do not know if it is legislation exactly. The organisations are talking about one single consent. Are they saying that, no more than planning permission for a house, if you are beside an SAC or in it, you put in all the scientific evidence to show you will not do X, Y or Z and that the planning board then decides within three months? Is that what our guests are saying the system should be? I would not be touching the EPA, if it was me.