Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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377. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a comprehensive copy of the briefing notes and recommendations that he received from his Department in respect of the 2022-2023 General State-wide Wild Birds Declaration that he signed on 6 July 2022. [54567/22]

Malcolm Noonan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Green Party)
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I refer to the reply to Question 350 of 18 October 2022. My office has arranged for the briefing note in respect of the 2022-2023 General State-wide Wild Birds Declaration signed on 6 July 2022 to be provided on 2 November 2022.

Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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378. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department and or the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) retains the records/file pertinent to the research, consultation and preparatory work for the drafting and final approval of S.I. No. 254/1986 - European Communities (Wildlife Act, 1976) (Amendment) Regulations, 1986; if, in so doing, his Department is in contravention of the terms of the National Archives Act 1986 Regulations 1988 which require Government Department records/files to be transferred to the Office of the National Archives when they are thirty years old; and if so, if he will instruct his Department and the NPWS to provide a full copy of the records/file. [54568/22]

Malcolm Noonan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Green Party)
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I refer to the reply given to Parliamentary Questions 351 and 352 on 18 of October 2022.

My officials are continuing to search for files and records pertinent to the research, consultation and preparation work for the drafting and approval of the European Communities (Wildlife Act, 1976) (Amendment) Regulations, 1986.

It should be noted that file reference number 2016/2/167 for the file of the Office of the Attorney General relating to the European Communities (Wildlife Act, 1976) (Amendment) Regulations, 1986 is archived at the Office of the National Archives under the National Archives Act, 1986, Regulations 1988.