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The question needs to be asked whether the development is proximal to a protected site, on contaminated land or close to a site that SEPA licenses or regulates, such as a waste management site or a pollution prevention and control site....
On this occasion, there was some liaison between our legal adviser and the relevant people in the Executive, so the matter was dealt with quite quickly.
I was detained on another matter. I express my regret for any discourtesy to Des McNulty, the convener of the Finance Committee.I thank Susan Duffy and all the clerks for the excellent back-up and support that they provide to the Finance Committee.
There is a lot of interest in that process, but practical problems arise from the economics of taking brash off site and there are ecological issues about removing nutrients from the site.
We therefore agreed to reduce our representation on committees to five places. To their credit, other parties responded by reducing their representation.