Lynn Boylan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Two sites have been identified. Clearly, criteria were used in the assessment of the sites that could possibly be used for such a project. The two that made it through the assessment made it for a reason. The question is why the other sites did not make it. Is it the case that they did not make the selection relevant to the EIA and the planning criteria? That is our concern. If two sites were above all the others as being most appropriate, yet we are now leaving it open to some of the other sites that were not judged to have made the mark, could those other sites be used if the two earmarked sites do not work out? There is a concern if the process is open-ended because we do not know what the criteria were. We asked the officials if they would share the criteria with us and they said they would but we still have not seen them. What was it that made these two sites meet the mark and the others fail to do so, yet we are still leaving the door open to them? Is that relevant to what we are trying to waive here in terms of the EIA and planning?