Mr. Niall Gleeson:

It is probably a big ask. It might be a new authority or a case of adapting the planning authority, for example. It would be more of a co-ordination role. The EPA and An Bord Pleanála know what they have to do but the interaction and tracking of who is doing what is not there at the moment. It would be a body that, first, would allow us to do the applications at the same time. At present, the EPA typically waits for us to have planning permission before it will consider a licence application. It might make a decision on the licence application that might impact the planning permission and we may have to go back and adjust the planning application. Running them concurrently would make a lot more sense.