Finian McGrath
Question:215 Mr. F. McGrath asked the Minister for Communications, the Marine and Natural Resources if he will request information from the Dublin Port Company to ensure a proper and balanced debate on the Dublin Bay issue; whether, if the port gets permission to infill 52 acres of the bay, it will signal the end of infill development in the bay; if the port is becoming an estate management company rather than a working port; the research the port has done with regard to the proposed infill in relation to the flooding problem in Dublin; the reason it is charging ?190 for a copy of the environmental impact statement; the solutions planned to combat the problem regarding pollutant organisms discharged into the bay; the role the port played in having the proposed SPA boundaries redrawn; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that one can only interfere with something of this nature on scientific grounds; the plans of the port regarding the 25 acres of port land which has been vacated by the Irish Glass Bottle Company; the amount of the land in the port which is rented to businesses at below market rates; if the port needs extra land, the reason it continues to rent or sell the land it has already taken out of the bay to East Point Business Park; and the alternatives to the infilling of the bay which the port has considered. [14906/02]
