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

Then on section 21(3), I raised the point that in order to be consistent with the Strategic Environment Assessment, SEA, Directive, article 7 would be much better to have this explicit in the legislation. The point has been made before. There are 700 pages here. If things are buried and not comprehensively dealt with here then the chances of them getting missed increases significantly. While it may be covered there, if it is not written in when a review is being done by the Department then the chances of it being missed is increased. That is why I support our amendment.