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

In what I have seen before, you have to be able show that something is not hydrologically linked to the other thing. That is a hydrologist and an ecologist. We have worked with RPS before on bogs. We had to show that, as well as doing the screening, the appropriate EIA and all the usual palaver that we have to do now. I have seen it before, where a drain or a ditch was rounded that was down to the lough. When they do the sampling, they go down and look for upwelling when they are doing the hydrological tests. The LiDAR system would have given some accuracy in looking at the depth of lough in some bogs for permeability. That system can show if something is hydrologically not linked to it or not.