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

It has not come across my desk yet. I will get back to the Senator on whether it has been received and whether it can be published. Where we can, we put information on natural resources up on the relevant section of the Department's website. If it is available, we will send a copy to the Senator. It is at the prospecting licence stage at the moment and if it is to go to the next stage, a full planning permission application will have to be submitted to Galway County Council. The next steps from there would be public consultation, possible appeals to An Bord Pleanála, etc. It is at an early stage but it follows on from work done in the 1960s. It is right and proper that the community be kept informed of any necessary work. I will get an update for the Senator on whether an application has been received by the Department.