Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Amendment No. 1186 seeks to amend Schedule 1, which lists the types of development that are to be known as "strategic infrastructure development". Paragraph 3(d) currently lists groundwater abstractions of a certain scale and this amendment seeks to include surface water abstractions also. This will facilitate Uisce Éireann projects for surface water abstractions where the annual volume exceed 2 million m3 being capable of being made as a direct application to the commission.