Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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231. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a plant (details supplied) will require an environmental impact assessment under the EIA Directive of the EU. [19276/22]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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At present, no formal application has been made in respect of the referenced plant. The EIA Directive (no. 85/337/EEC and its subsequent amendments) sets out the thresholds above which certain projects should be the subject of an Environmental Impact Assessment. The Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) transposes these requirements into Irish law, as they relate to proposed development as defined in the Act, and sets out the manner in which various approvals and consents integrate same into the prescribed processes. If and when a decision is made to proceed with any proposed development, the requirements of the Act must be complied with as a matter of course.