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

I move amendment No. 842:

In page 346, to delete lines 33 to 39, and in page 347, to delete lines 1 and 2, and substitute the following:

“(2) Where, in relation to a relevant plan, a competent authority (other than the Minister) considers that— (a) there is an absence of alternative solutions to the relevant plan,

(b) imperative reasons of overriding public interest exist or may, subject to the opinion of the European Commission, exist for the making of the relevant plan, and

(c) the compensatory measures proposed by it are adequate to ensure the overall coherence of the Natura 2000 network, the competent authority may prepare, and submit to the Minister, a statement to that effect.”.