Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour)
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50. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will formally publish the results of the 2021 National Survey of Urban Seagulls commissioned by his Department and the National Parks and Wildlife Service including the analysis of the results; and the date for the formal publication with such analysis. [59662/21]

Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour)
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51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a series of matters in relation to the 2021 National Survey of Urban Seagulls commissioned by his Department and the National Parks and Wildlife Service (details supplied). [59663/21]

Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour)
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52. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a series of matters in relation to the 2021 National Survey of Urban Seagulls commissioned by his Department and the National Parks and Wildlife Service (details supplied) and the Habitats Directive. [59664/21]

Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour)
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54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a series of matters in relation to the 2021 National Survey of Urban Seagulls commissioned by his Department and the National Parks and Wildlife Service (details supplied) the Seabird 2000 census results and the April 2020 report from the consultative committee on Urban Seagulls established by his predecessor in June 2019. [59666/21]

Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour)
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55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a series of matters in relation to the results of the 2021 National Survey of Urban Seagulls commissioned by his Department and the National Parks and Wildlife Service (details supplied), the Seabird 2000 census results and a statement reported to have been issued by his Department and the NPWS in response to a freedom of information request in July 2016. [59667/21]

Malcolm Noonan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Green Party)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 50, 51, 52, 54 and 55 together.

With respect to population estimates, my Department undertook an extensive breeding gull survey of a wide sample of urban habitats across the State in 2021. This National Urban Gull Survey is part of a wider seabird surveying collaboration with UK authorities known as Seabirds Count. The analysis of the Irish and UK data is ongoing for the relevant gull species, as well as for other breeding seabird species.

The report of the National Urban Gull Survey 2021 will be published on the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) website in the coming days. The analysis of the Irish and UK data is ongoing for the relevant gull species, as well as for other breeding seabird species and there is no final publication date as yet for those analyses.

Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour)
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53. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a series of matters in relation to the Departmental and National Parks and Wildlife Service’s published document on its website titled Birds Case (C 418/04) Programme of Measures -2017 (details supplied). [59665/21]

Malcolm Noonan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Green Party)
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Departmental staff recently met with the European Commission to discuss progress on the Birds Case (C 418/04) Programme of Measures. Another meeting will be held in January 2022 with a view to identifying further progress on the Case. With respect to the 2017 update, it was to indicate that the referenced planning authorities have responsibility for urban areas (in relation to town or village plans) that do not include protected habitats, that adverse impacts on such habitats were not anticipated, and that would be established and demonstrated at plan level.