Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 12:

In page 4, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: "(4) Where an order under subsection (2) specifies emergency periods under subsection (3)(b)(i) or subsection (3)(b)(ii), or both, in making the order the Government shall also consider—

(a) the likely interest of the public in the administrative area for which the order is made, in environmental decision-making in other administrative areas for which no order is intended by virtue of such other administrative area not satisfying the considerations under subsection (4),

(b) the potential negative impact to public participation and wide access to justice which might result from a failure to extend the application of emergency periods beyond the administrative area where the making of an order is satisfied under subsection (4), and

(c) the need to extend the administrative area covered by the order as a consequence to provide for effective public participation and wide access to justice, notwithstanding subsection (4).".

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