Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

Question 1: To ask the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources if he intends to develop a national policy on the extraction of onshore natural gas by hydraulic fracturing; if the issuing of further licences for the exploration and exploitation of this resources will be deferred pending the development of such a policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2620/12]

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