Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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494. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will consider the amendments made to the Wildlife Bill 2016 in Seanad Éireann; when he will complete his consideration of the Bill; when he will propose to Government that permission be sought to have this Bill restored to the Order Paper for Dáil Éireann’s final consideration; the reason for the more than four-year delay in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63667/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016 gives legal effect to the proposed reconfiguration of the raised bog Natural Heritage Area network arising from the 2014 review of the raised bog Natural Heritage Area network.

The Bill had completed all stages in the Dáil and the Seanad, and had been returned to the Dáil for consideration of the various amendments made by the Seanad when the Bill lapsed with the dissolution of the 32nd Dáil on 14 January 2020.

The amendments made in the Seanad have been re-examined in consultation with the Office of Parliamentary Counsel (OPC) from a legal and drafting perspective, and it is intended to bring a Memorandum to Government seeking approval to have the Bill restored to the Order Paper very shortly.