Written answers

Thursday, 17 September 2020

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

Offshore Exploration

Photo of Johnny MythenJohnny Mythen (Wexford, Sinn Fein)
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103. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities will be instructed to consult with all stakeholders when issuing exploratory offshore licences to national or international companies particularly local fishing communities and local businesses. [24531/20]

Photo of Darragh O'BrienDarragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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In respect to issuing of and consultation on exploratory offshore licenses the local authorities have no functions in this regard.  Functional responsibility of the local authorities ends at the high water mark and the seaward side out to 12 nautical miles is a shared responsibility, depending on the activity being licensed, between myself and the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Marine under the Foreshore Act 1933, as amended.

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