Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent)
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Question 286: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of hectares in each county that are designated candidate special areas of conservation and natural heritage areas. [47831/09]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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A breakdown of the nature conservation designations of Special Area of Conservation (SAC), Special Protection Area (SPA) and Natural Heritage Area (NHA) on a county by county basis is provided in the table below. It should be noted that, for the purpose of this exercise, designations were reconciled to an Ordnance Survey Ireland county dataset. Marine areas were excluded and area figures were rounded to the nearest whole number. In many cases the areas of designation overlap and, accordingly, the overall amount of a county's area that is subject to designation cannot be deduced by adding the hectarage figures for each designation type.