Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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Question 636: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the involvement his Department had in the establishment of a meeting between representatives of Shell, Statoil and Marathon Ireland with the chairman of An Bord Pleanála in September 2003; and if the desirability of such a meeting was discussed at a meeting with executives of Shell on 19 September 2003. [5431/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The chairman of An Bord Pleanála has previously indicated that he met with representatives of the Irish Offshore Operators Association in September 2003 to discuss general matters relating to planning. The minutes of that meeting clearly show that the board refused to discuss an individual case. The correspondence related to that meeting shows that it had been arranged in July, and its timing was, therefore, unrelated to any other meeting, including that with the Taoiseach on 19 September 2003. My Department had no role in the arrangements for the meeting with An Bord Pleanála.