Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 June 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Review: Discussion

3:00 pm

Mr. Niall Ó Donnchú:

No, I am saying the context for the establishment of that forum will be the review of the Wildlife Acts. That goes out to public consultation imminently, as Ms de Brúch pointed out. How long that public consultation and review will take will be driven by the feedback we get. We will probably get hundreds of submissions in that context and they will have to be considered. There are two questions. On how long the review will take, the answer is we do not know because it will be very complex. We are certainly not going to delay in the context of reviewing the submissions that come in-----