Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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1626. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 290 of 7 February 2017, the steps being taken to locate the environmental assessment reports; if a third party investigation will be carried out in respect of the missing reports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35160/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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In the reply to Question Number 198 of 8 November 2016, it was indicated that, following a search of the foreshore records, my Department had not been able to locate the environmental assessment reports requested in respect of the granting of the 2006 lease and that further enquires to include the Departments who held responsibility for the foreshore function at the time of the original application in 2005 would be made.

Subsequently, in the reply to Question Number 290 of 7 February 2017, it was stated that the Departments that held responsibility for the foreshore function at the time had been unable to locate the environmental assessment reports requested in respect of the granting of the 2006 lease.

Both my Department and those that held responsibility for foreshore functions at the time of the original application in 2005 have been unable to locate the environmental assessment reports requested in respect of the granting of the 2006 lease. There are no plans to carry out a third party investigation of the matter.