Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)

I move amendment No. 109:

In page 45, between lines 37 and 38, to insert the following:

23.—(1) A local authority may be appointed by the Minister as agent of the Minister to do one or more of the following:

(a) prepare a mine rehabilitation plan;

(b) revise a mine rehabilitation plan; or

(c) carry out a mine rehabilitation plan,

on such terms and conditions as the Minister may decide.

(2) After consultation with the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, the Minister may appoint a local authority to discharge functions under this section in respect of so much of the site of a former mine which is within the local authority's functional area.

(3) Nothing in subsection (2) shall be read as affecting any appointment, made by the Minister before the passing of this Act, of a local authority as agent of the Minister to carry out a project similar in nature to a mine rehabilitation plan.".

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