Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour)
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101. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the position regarding the public and private consultation initiated by his Department on ways to preserve and manage the Curragh Plains, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56280/21]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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My Department with Kildare County Council have commissioned consultants to conduct public consultations to inform the development and future management of the Curragh Plains. The first round of consultations were completed earlier this year and resulted in excess of 3,600 responses. The next phase of the project relating to the development of a Conservation Management Plan and a Branding Plan is now underway. It is anticipated that further consultations will take place early 2022 with a view to the project being completed mid 2022.