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

I move amendment No. 25:

In page 12, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following:“Amendment of Act of 1976

8. Section 40 of the Act of 1976, as amended by the Act of 2000, is amended —

(a) in subsection (1), by the insertion of the following new paragraphs after paragraph (b):

“(c) The Minister may make regulations to extend, in part or parts of the State, the period of protection referred to in paragraph (a) in order to protect species covered by Article 1 of the Birds Directive.

(d) The Minister may make regulations to protect individual hedgerows of archaeological, historical, ecological or landscape significance.”,

and

(b) in subsection (2)(c), by the insertion of the words “, or under notice from,” between “safety by” and “a Minister”.”.

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