Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

I'll offer a two-part answer. The first is that DCCEEW would be responsible for assessing the permit application. Of course, the department has a long history of engaging in environmental impact assessment processes and has specific capabilities in relation to the EIA requirements of the London protocol. But, in addition to that, to the extent that the project engages any other aspect of Australian government regulation, the proponent would also need to meet all of those requirements. You can envisage quite a wide range of both state and Commonwealth regulatory arrangements that might be engaged, depending on the nature of the project. So, as part of the application, the applicant would be required to describe all of the consultations that have taken place with all of the relevant bodies—advisory bodies and government authorities, as well as stakeholder organisations or interest groups.