Violet-Anne Wynne (Clare, Sinn Fein)
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91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of all foreshore licence applications covering the Shannon Estuary basin in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57019/22]

Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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My Department’s Foreshore Unit operates the consenting regime under the Foreshore Act 1933, managing the regulation of a range of different marine activities and infrastructural developments.

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. Details of applications and determinations made by the Minister under the Act are on my Department's website gov.ie - Foreshore applications (www.gov.ie)

Details of all of the applications that have been received that relate to the area of the foreshore referred to are set out below. These applications are at various stages of the assessment process. Those that are not currently available on my Department's website will shortly be published as they commence the statutory assessment process.