Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 24:

In page 12, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following:

“Amendment of Act of 19768. The Act of 1976 is amended in section 40—

(a) by the substitution for subsection (2) of the following:

“(2) The Minister may, where no other satisfactory solution exists, derogate from the restrictions of section 40(1) of the Act of 1976 to permit the management of vegetation referred to in section 1(a) and (b) being carried out—

(a) in the interests of public health and safety,

(b) in the interests of air safety,

(c) to prevent serious damage to crops, livestock, forests, fisheries and water,

(d) for the protection of flora and fauna,

subject to regulations which must specify—

(i) the species of wild flora and fauna which are subject to the derogations,

(ii) the conditions of risk and the circumstances of time and place under which such derogations may be granted,

(iii) the authority empowered to declare that the required conditions obtain and to decide what means, arrangements or methods may be used, within what limits and by whom, and

(iv) the controls which will be carried out.”,

and

(b) subsection (3) is deleted.”.”.

The House has debated this issue at length. We have made the point that there is radical destruction-----

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