Kevin O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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732. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a person can invoke the Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2000 during the closed season on the grounds of health and safety in cases in which the local authority does not carry out a specific service (details supplied). [50344/18]

Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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Section 40 of the Wildlife Acts 1976, as amended, prohibits the activity in question, with certain strict exemptions, from 1 March to 31 August.

Section 70 of the Roads Act 1993 contains provisions related to the matter, in which it is a hazard or potential hazard to persons using a public road.

The Heritage Act 2018 incorporated the provisions of Section 70 of the Roads Act relating to the activity for road safety reasons as an exempted activity under the Wildlife Acts.

The Heritage Act 2018 also empowers the Minister for Culture Heritage and the Gaeltacht to make regulations to allow for such managed activity during the month of August on a pilot two year basis.