John Cummins (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have one last question on the second set of regulations, and the fees. It says that these would be more suitable obviously for renewable energy projects and highlights these where the full details of a proposed project, for example turbine tip height, blade width, grid connection route, are not definitively known. The question raised by that explanation is why would they not be known. If there is a significant amount of work that goes into a project, if a route to a grid connection requires, for example, the creation of a new pathway and the felling of a forest in order to facilitate same, surely the impact would have to be adjudicated as part of it. If we are making provision where that can be adjudicated on at a later point, I am looking for some clarity on whether we are allowing flexibility for all of that to be looked at at a later point. It seems to me that all of that should be front-ended and should be assessed at the outset.