Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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241. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will remove the SAC designation for Lough Funshinagh Turlough in County Roscommon given the devastating environmental impact of the persistent six-year flooding which has destroyed the natural flora of the catchment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12441/22]

Malcolm Noonan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Green Party)
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Lough Funshinagh was selected as an a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) taking account of the more drawn-out pattern of drainage than the typical annual rise and fall of other turlough lakes. On that basis, there is no scientific case to remove the site from the SAC list. My Department has no plans at this time to review the SAC designation of the site.