Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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261. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the planned industrial terminal on the Shannon Estuary; the way in which this planning fits with the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act 2018 recently passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52311/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Under section 30 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, I am, as Minister, specifically precluded from exercising any power or control in relation to any particular case with which a planning authority or the Board is or may be concerned, except in very specific circumstances, which do not arise in this case. In addition, it would be inappropriate for me to make any comment on the proposed liquefied natural gas terminal development referred to as it is presently the subject of High Court proceedings. 

The Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016, which has recently been passed by the Oireachtas, falls within the remit of my colleague, the Minister for Finance.