Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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246. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide maps for Laois regarding special areas of conservation, proposed/candidate special areas of conservation, natural heritage areas, proposed natural heritage areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22113/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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EU Member States are required to designate areas as Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) to protect a variety of habitats and species under the EU Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) transposed into Irish law by the European Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 477 of 2011). SAC sites are part of a European network of Sites of Community Importance, known as the Natura 2000 network, and the designation of an SAC site is a formal, legal process in Irish and European law. Natural Heritage Areas are protected under Section 16(1) of the Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2000.

Detailed maps of all protected sites in Ireland, including sites in Co. Laois, are published on the National Parks and Wildlife Service website at www.npws.ie/maps-and-data .