Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

On a related matter, in answering questions raised during the debate on the Prohibition of the Exploration and Extraction of Onshore Petroleum Bill 2016, we dealt exclusively with onshore fracking. I do not know if there is any example where fracking offshore is possible - it would seem to be technically impossible - but if there were an offshore fracking development, would that also effectively be a mining licence application or would it be a petroleum licence?