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:

That is a direct question and I will give a very direct answer to that. We will know in quarter 4 of 2024 what kind of response we get to the public consultation. We will have assimilated that response. We will absolutely need to engage with the entire set of stakeholders in this area, and there are a huge number of those, in the context of moving that review forward. We will need that input. I would say the logical time to talk about that forum is either quarter 4 of 2024 or quarter 1 of 2025. We will have other processes ongoing as well separate to that. We will get to that later. I think we are talking about the nature restoration law. We will have a significant consultation process going on too regarding the nature restoration law. We will certainly need help from various forums in that context.