Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent)
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238. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 129 of 22 March 2022, the reason that a licence (details supplied) is omitted from the list of offshore licensing extensions currently under consideration when the application for lease undertaking extension was submitted in April 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19401/22]

Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent)
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239. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of a licence (details supplied) in relation to existing authorisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19402/22]

Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent)
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240. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the lease undertaking for a licence (details supplied) will be issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19403/22]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 238, 239 and 240 together.238, 239 and 240 together.

The licence referred to was not included in the list of extension applications under consideration by my Department that was provided in my response to Parliamentary Question No. 129 of 22 March 2022 as it is the subject of an application for a follow-on lease undertaking, not a licence extension. This lease undertaking application is currently under consideration by my Department.

All applications for petroleum authorisations are assessed against a number of criteria in accordance with Section 9A(1) of the Petroleum and Other Minerals Development Act, 1960 and Section 3 of the Licensing Terms for Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration, Development and Production. This includes the technical competence of the applicant and the financial resources available to it in order to undertake the work programme and any other commitments pursuant to the relevant petroleum authorisation.

My Department does not publish information on individual applications for authorisations whilst they are under consideration.