Seán Kyne (Galway West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Obviously, a decision was made by the Department in conjunction with other bodies to go down the route of a report. The report will gather together all the available data and information on the issue of unconventional gas exploration and extraction. The report is due by the end of this year at the latest, and possibly earlier, but we are saying by the end of this year. I believe the right thing to do is to wait for this report. Perhaps the Deputy will be pleasantly surprised when it is published. I am not going to pre-empt its contents but there has been a wide public consultation on the terms of reference and a number of bodies, including my Department, the EPA, and the Northern Ireland Department of Energy and others, have been engaged in this report. It is prudent to await the outcome of it.

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