Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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I will try to help you on that, Deputy. In the last Dáil I was involved with the public expenditure committee. That licence was issued directly by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The regulator was not in situ. The legislation for the regulator being put in place is to monitor the agreement that had been signed before the regulator came into being. Effectively, the regulator's job is to sign the next licence 20 years hence. That is the regulator's first big task. In the meantime, this licence agreement was signed off by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and specific legislation was passed by the Houses. We will ask the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform for a detailed note on the legislation to start with, as I am sure this issue was discussed during its passage, and how that transferred into the licence that the Department issued to PLI.