Brian O'Shea (Waterford, Labour)
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Question 201: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received the report of the advisory committee on the future of the Viking site at Woodstown, County Waterford; the decisions taken on foot of the report; when the report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11094/08]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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My Department has received the Final Report of the Woodstown Working Group on the future preservation and archaeological investigation of the national monument site at Woodstown, Co. Waterford. This detailed report, which includes a number of recommendations made by the expert Working Group, is currently being considered. I will make a further statement on the matter in due course. It is also my intention to make the report publicly available as its contents will be of considerable public interest, especially to people locally in Waterford and the South Eastern Region, as well as to the wider archaeological community given the significance of the discoveries at Woodstown in 2003 and the subsequent archaeological investigations which shed further light on those discoveries.