Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The Minister is saying he is sort of sympathetic to the issues raised but all we are being offered in the Bill is that, once an opinion has been given following the meeting, the public will be aware of that opinion. Across the board here everybody is saying it would be better to get communities in at the ground floor on these large-scale projects.

I could not understand why our amendment is different from Deputy Pringle's.

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