Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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544. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Northern Ireland Department for Infrastructure shared the two water discharge consent applications and the two water abstraction licence applications in their notification to the Minister with regard to the transboundary nature of the gold mine application in the Sperrins area of outstanding natural beauty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7840/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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I can confirm that a transboundary EIA notification was received by my Department on Thursday 30 January 2025 from the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) in Northern Ireland. This notification concerns a number of development applications related to the proposed Dalradian Gold Mine Project, at Greencastle, Co Tyrone.

DfI have advised that three applications formally require transboundary consultation as follows:

• Mine Application file reference LA10/2017/1249/F; and
• Two Power Line Applications file references LA10/2019/1386/F and LA11/2019/1000/F.

• Application for Consent to Discharge under the Water Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 file reference TrC80/20;
• Application for Consent to Discharge under the Water Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 file reference TrC81/20;
• Application to abstract and impound water under the Water Abstraction and Impoundment (Licensing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 file references AIL/2024/0008 and AIL/2024/0009;
• Application for road abandonment order under the Roads (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 file referenceDR001.