Ciarán Ahern (Dublin South West, Labour)

I move amendment No. 19:

In page 14, after line 39, to insert the following: “(5) For the purposes of subsection (3), the Agency shall deem the change proposed to be made to a revised licence to constitute a substantial change if that change and changes already made to the licence would, taken together, constitute a substantial change.”.

This is about the cumulative impact of screening for minor changes. The Bill enables partial licence reviews where a non-substantial change is being made to a development or a facility. The concern here would be that over time a few minor changes could constitute a substantial overall change, and the development would never have got the full environmental impact assessment. This is about trying to cover a series of smaller changes that might ultimately become substantial.