Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

We have to have some basis for operation, good organisations to deal with it and very good transparency. Other EU member states have the same issues in addressing this. The Planning and Development Regulations 2001 set out the detailed provisions in relation to environmental impact statements and are based on the requirements in EU Directive 85/337/EEC, as amended, which provides that a developer should supply the relevant information to the consent authority which carries out the assessment, as does the public.