Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 17 April 2008
648 Deputy Frank Feighan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the Cloonelt Bog and Cloonsuck Bog in the Cloonbonniffe area in north County Roscommon is included in the Special Area of Conservation and national heritage area of bogland. [14287/08]
View answerThe Cloonelt and Cloonsuck Bogs in north County Roscommon are not designated, or proposed, as Natural Heritage Areas, nor have they been included on the list of 423 sites transmitted to the EU in December 2007 as Special Areas of Conservation. The designated status of any land may be checked on the website www.npws.ie .
649 Deputy Frank Feighan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the sale of bogland in the Special Area of Conservation area in County Roscommon on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon, which is ongoing for a long period. [14288/08]
View answerThe Chief State Solicitor's Office have confirmed that they have investigated the title in the above case and have written to the vendor's solicitor with a number of standard pre-contract queries. It is hoped that the matter can be finalised shortly.
