Senator Pippa Hackett:

Nine hundred days is a long time to wait for a licence. The advice I imagine the constituent has been given is that supplying a Natura impact statement would expedite the licence application. I accept that there is a cost associated with that. I do not know the constituent's details. If the area is small, the cost of supplying a statement could be prohibitive. If it is a large area, however, the constituent might be able to it.

In light of the advice the Deputy outlined, I imagine the person's licence application is in the backlog in the ecology section. Thanks to resources, we are seeing a large increase in that section's output. We will continue to work on that.

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