Martin Ferris (Kerry North-West Limerick, Sinn Fein)

-----was communication and discussion with host communities and the benefits of having this. We can compare that to what happened in Glengad and Rossport and so forth. We gave a copy of the report to those people because they also contributed, coming all the way from Ballinaboy.

They read the report and were impressed by the fact that there is provision for consultation and for having a forum in place into which the industry, the political side, the host community and the trade union side can feed to ensure proactively that any benefits derived will come to the people and that where discoveries are made there will be a dividend for people in those areas and a return to the Exchequer.

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