Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Yes, but if these legislative provisions are no different from the ones at the moment, and it is definitely my strong view that the ones at the moment are not working sufficiently to protect the public interest, that wording about conditions, "including conditions relating to location and design", does not specify this area. If a utility or a company keeps getting licences, opening up roads and doing poor reinstatements, there is no provision, nothing here, really, to mean that a local authority or a planning authority could refuse its next application on the basis of picking up the bill for proper reinstatements previously. Should those sorts of protections not be outlined in the Bill to protect the public interest?