John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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Question 204: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress to date in 2006 by his Department in implementing the legal requirement of his Department to rehabilitate the site of the former Irish Steel Company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5280/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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My Department is mandated by a Government decision to maintain and secure this site, to conduct a suitable site investigation and to prepare a report for Government on the results of that investigation. The site investigation works have now been completed and my Department expects to have the resulting interpretative reports within a few weeks.

The deteriorating condition of a number of the buildings on site, coupled with an opportunity to sell for scrap the metal content of the remaining plant and buildings, resulted in a decision to undertake certain demolition works as an interim measure. These works are now well advanced.