Written answers

Tuesday, 18 October 2016

Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government

Nitrates Action Programme Implementation

Photo of Brendan GriffinBrendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael)
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274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will consider giving discretion to the local authority to extend the slurry ban deadline time for 2016 and for future years as the current deadline has the potential, due to inclement weather, to cause needless pollution in local areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30432/16]

Photo of Bobby AylwardBobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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275. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will extend the 15 October deadline for slurry spreading in view of the severe weather experienced over the past few months, which has severely curtailed spreading activity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30468/16]

Photo of Peter BurkePeter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the efforts he is making to extend the deadline for slurry spreading in view of the adverse weather conditions experienced and the exemption granted in the North; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30569/16]

Photo of Peter BurkePeter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will consider extending the deadline for slurry spreading, taking into account the adverse condition of farming land after heavy rainfall and the backlog facing contractors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31021/16]

Photo of Simon CoveneySimon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 274 to 276, inclusive, and 280 together.

I refer to the reply to Question Nos. 84 and 86 of 13th October 2016. The position is unchanged.

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