Brian Ó Domhnaill (Fianna Fail)

It mentions prescribed costs but we do not know what they are. They could be anything. The Minister has not clarified this and I do not expect him to do so because he may not know the answer. As he mentioned, it will be up to the Environmental Protection Agency, in conjunction with his Department, to decide at a future date what those prescribed costs will be.

We cannot accept those two lines in the Bill and must press the amendment unless we get absolute clarification.