Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)

At present those costs are by subvention to the board. As I stated already when we dealt with this matter earlier, these costs can be offset against the planning application fees at a later stage. The determination of those are regular costs, and whether it is an environmental assessment, the pay of a consultant or whatever, the important aspect is that the board can charge these. The subvention pays for the developers' investigation at infrastructural level at present. It is only proper that preplanning investigation is paid for. The developer has the opportunity of offsetting it at a later stage.