Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Licensing of a plant such as that to which the Deputy refers falls within the remit of the independent Environmental Protection Agency. It makes decisions on applications and polices compliance with the conditions that it imposes on applications. It does not fall to the political system or to the Minister to make decisions on these matters, which have to be based on scientific evaluation and scrutiny of the individual application.

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