John Perry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 372: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the amount of Government funding that the national seabed survey will receive in 2006; the funding the survey will receive over the coming years; if the team behind the survey will be given the time they want to finish the project in view of the huge progress which has so far been made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32877/05]

Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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The geological survey unit of the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources has agreed a joint programme of work with the Marine Institute. The programme, Integrated Mapping for the Sustainable Development of Ireland's Marine Resource, or INFOMAR, will be a successor to the Irish national seabed survey. A memorandum for Government has been circulated to Departments for comment. It is hoped to refer the memorandum to the Government shortly. The INFOMAR programme is a 20-year programme but Government funding will be sought for an initial three-year period, 2006-08, with a review in 2008. The level of funding for 2006 and subsequent years has yet to be finalised.