Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent)
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199. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will make available the available data the NPWS is using to inform decisions on the review of the Open Seasons Order and transparency as to who the stakeholders are NPWS is engaging with as part of this public consultation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20486/23]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The public consultation for the review of the Open Seasons Order is open to all to put their views forward on an individual or organisational basis, and the online survey open until 3 May 2023. A productive stakeholder engagement meeting was held in Dublin on Friday 21 April and stakeholder groups were invited across various interests such as hunting, farming, eNGOs and heritage. All of these interests were represented at the meeting. Further information on Ireland's Open Seasons Order and the public consultation can be found on my Department’s website and that of the National Parks and Wildlife Service at the respective links:

www.gov.ie/en/consultation/c98d4-public-consultation-on-amending-the-open-seasons-order-for-birds/

www.npws.ie/legislation/irish-law/open-seasons-order

Datasets that inform the review of the Open Seasons Order include those listed below:

Ireland’s Article 12 Report for the period 2013 – 2018

cdr.eionet.europa.eu/Converters/run_conversion?file=ie/eu/art12/envxztxxq/IE_birds_reports_20191031-130157.xml&conv=612&source=remote#A045-A_W

Cummins, S., Bleasdale, A., Douglas, C., Newton, S., O’Halloran, J. & Wilson, H.J. (2010)

The status of Red Grouse in Ireland and the effects of land use, habitat and habitat quality on their distribution

Irish Wildlife Manuals, No. 50. National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Dublin, Ireland.

www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/publications/pdf/IWM50.pdf

Lewis, L. J., Coombes, D., Burke, B., O’Halloran, J., Walsh, A., Tierney, T. D. & Cummins, S. (2019)

Countryside Bird Survey: Status and trends of common and widespread breeding birds 1998-2016

Irish Wildlife Manuals, No. 115. National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Ireland.

www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/publications/pdf/IWM115.pdf

Lewis, L. J., Burke, B., Fitzgerald, N., Tierney, T. D. & Kelly, S. (2019)

Irish Wetland Bird Survey: Waterbird Status and Distribution 2009/10-2015/16

Irish Wildlife Manuals, No. 106. National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Ireland.

www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/publications/pdf/IWM_106_Irelands_Wintering_Waterbirds.pdf

Irish Wetland Bird Survey (I-WeBS)

irishwetlandbirdsurvey.ie/

Balmer DE, Gillings S, Caffrey BJ, Swann RL, Downie IS, Fuller RJ.

Bird Atlas 2007-11: the breeding and wintering birds of Britain and Ireland

Thetford: BTO; 2013.

The New Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland: 1988-1991

Author(s): Gibbons, D.W., Reid, J.B. & Chapman, R.A.. Published: January 1993 Burke B, Lewis LJ, Fitzgerald N, Frost T, Austin G, Tierney TD.

Estimates of waterbird numbers wintering in Ireland, 2011/12–2015/16

Irish Birds. 2018;11:1-2. Gilbert, Gillian, Andrew Stanbury, and Lesley Lewis.

Birds of conservation concern in Ireland 4: 2020–2026.

Irish Birds43 (2021): 1-22.

birdwatchireland.ie/app/uploads/2021/04/BOCCI-2020-2026.pdf