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

I get the point. We are agreed on going past seven years. Going back to 2005, would a quarry that had been stopped be remediated back up to what it was in 2004 if it goes back to that? You add in 15 years of unauthorised quarrying and an enforcement notice issued. You have stopped that, it is an unauthorised development and you have been able to take enforcement action. Remediation or restitution may not be possible in that instance. The site may be secured in other ways or used for other things but you have stopped the illegal works. You will not be able to remediate a quarry that has been quarried for 15 or 20 years.