Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

This issue arose at the Joint Committee on Communications, Marine and Natural Resources as well as at meetings on energy. If it transpired that a very profitable zone containing minerals, ore, oil, gas or something else were discovered in that region or nearby, or in some other similar region, how would we resolve the problem of rights, entitlements and ownership in terms of what the Minister has said? I recognise that he dealt with the matter before, but similar circumstances could arise, as referred to by Deputy Michael D. Higgins.

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