Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

In Deputy Troy's amendment there is reference to a consultation with local residents and so on. Before the Minister went into the Seanad he had that in the previous part of the Bill, in section 20. Therefore, what is the level of consultation? There is a particular issue around this in that we are governed by European legislation, are we not? We are governed by European legislation in the sense that if we want to revisit the balanced approach about which the Minister spoke a lot when we started discussion on the Bill, we have to go back to Europe and to some extent this House is hamstrung in that whole area. Is that the case?

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