John Connolly (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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62. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the updated national ports policy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17707/26]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)
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It is intended that a Memorandum for Government on the draft update of the National Ports Policy will be presented to Cabinet in late March 2026.

Once approved, my Department will carry out a public consultation on the draft policy, together with related environmental reports, in the first half of 2026. The finalised draft will then be returned to Cabinet for approval, with publication of the finalised draft to follow thereafter.

I look forward to the same high level of stakeholder engagement with this second public consultation as was achieved during the first, which was based on a thematic Issues Paper. Over 70 responses to that consultation were received and carefully assessed by officials in my Department.