Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Like the Minister, the concern we have is to ensure that organisations or campaign groups that have a genuine and sincere interest in environmental matters are facilitated. We look forward to his amendments to deal with those who are hiding under the banner of alleged environmental NGOs when they are not that. Exactly as the Minister said, they seek to extort money by way of delaying, which is something that none of us want to see.

One issue in my amendment No. 674 that I did not raise was that there is also an addition into the body of subsection (b), where in addition to considering applications that involve appropriate assessments and environmental impact assessments, I am also including screening determination to ensure where there may be a concern about an inadequate screening determination, this can be included too. My understanding is that some European Court of Justice case law would require-----