Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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293. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 326 of 11 October 2022, the conservation measures that apply from the NPWS list of conservation objectives for the Boyne, Kells Blackwater SAC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59494/22]

Malcolm Noonan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Green Party)
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A site-specific conservation objectives document was published for River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC (site code 002299) in December 2021. It is available at the following link: www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/protected-sites/conservation_objectives/CO002299.pdf.

This document contains a conservation objective for each of the habitats and species listed in the Habitats Directive for which the site is selected, namely river lamprey, salmon, otter, fens and wet woodland. Each of these conservation objectives aims to define favourable conservation condition for the habitat or species in question at this SAC.

This was done by setting a series of targets for attributes that collectively describe favourable conservation condition for each of the habitats and species. These in themselves are not conservation measures but can act as guidance for what measures might be required in the SAC, in order to achieve or maintain favourable conservation condition.

Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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294. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 416 of 8 November 2022, if under Article 6 of the Habitats Directive, that there is a requirement to produce management or conservation plans for SACs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59495/22]

Malcolm Noonan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Green Party)
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Sites designated under the Habitats Directive must be managed, conserved and protected in accordance with the provisions of Article 6 of the Directive.

Article 6.1 of the Directive requires Member States to establish the necessary conservation measure.