Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent)
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129. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of existing offshore licensing extensions currently under consideration by his Department; the length of time these applications have been in his Department in a tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14133/22]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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Section 57 of the Petroleum and Other Minerals Development Act 1960 requires that I lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas every six months a report detailing all exploration activities, including petroleum exploration authorisations granted during the period of the report. The last such report laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas was in respect of the six-month period ending 31 December 2021. A report on the status of all petroleum authorisations is also published on a quarterly basis on gov.ie (www.gov.ie/en/publication/10d43-acreage-reports-and-concession-maps/). The most recent such report was published in respect of the three month period ending 31 December 2021.The table below contains the information sought in relation to the numbers of current extensions applications.