Ulick Burke (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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Question 429: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has received a request from the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to provide funding for the rehabilitation of the old Tynagh Mines, Loughrea, County Galway following a meeting (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5635/08]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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I have not received a request from the Minister for the Environment, Heritage & Local Government to fund the rehabilitation of the former mine site at Tynagh. The site is being included in the national inventory of inactive and abandoned mine sites being prepared by the Environmental Protection Agency in conjunction with the Geological Survey of Ireland. The inventory will ensure that Ireland complies with Article 20 of Directive 2006/21/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the Management of Waste from Extractive Industries and amending Directive 2004/35/EC. It is scheduled for completion later this year, and it would be premature for me to make any comment on its conclusions at this stage. The inventory will, of course, be published as required by the Directive.