Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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358. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a person (details supplied) in County Clare whose lands adjoin a National Parks and Wildlife Service site will have their boundary wall completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39164/17]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The area in question involves a stretch of lands which adjoins a Nature Reserve.  I understand that at this location, the livestock on the adjoining lands frequently shelter under the trees growing in the nature reserve and the resultant pressing against the wall causes damage.

The National Parks and Wildlife service of my Department has carried out works in this regard over the past few years, including cutting back of trees growing along the boundary of these lands. The NPWS has also engaged a contractor to clear back the brush/hedges along the boundary.  The joint wall itself has been repaired a number of times over the past three years, in some places by NPWS staff and in others by the owner of the other property.  My Department is satisfied that the works undertaken mean that the wall is stock proof.