Written answers

Tuesday, 10 May 2022

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

Foreshore Issues

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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386. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a reply will issue to Galway County Council in relation to a query regarding whether the provision of moorings for yachts in Cuan na Beirtí Buí, near Carna would need a foreshore licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23475/22]

Photo of Peter BurkePeter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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The Foreshore Act 1933, as amended, requires that a lease or licence must be obtained for any activity on State-owned foreshore, which represents the greater part of the foreshore. The Act provides for the issuing of licences or leases which are in the public interest. A lease relates to buildings or other structures and is generally used for a development that requires exclusive occupation of the foreshore.

A licence is generally issued for a development or activity that does not require exclusive occupation of the foreshore and moorings also fall into this category. Details of how to make a Foreshore application are available at www.gov.ie/en/collection/f2196-foreshore-applications-and-determinations/.

My Department are engaged with Galway County Council in relation to this matter.

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