Mr. Michael Errity:

The OPW through its own statutory arrangements carries out what it calls a Part 9 planning process, where it puts up the normal information boards, etc., that one would associate with planning permission and then an independent assessment is carried out within the OPW, taking in the views of people such as Dublin City Council and anybody else who would come forward with submissions, the same as any other planning permission, the only difference being it is the OPW as a State body that makes the decision rather than the relevant local authority.