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Offshore Exploration

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 10 May 2022

Tuesday, 10 May 2022

Questions (212)

Richard Bruton

Question:

212. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the aggregate offshore areas in which licences to explore for gas or oil exist; the areas in which recent activity in terms of surveys or preliminary drilling have been sought; if these have been approved; and his views on their potential. [23287/22]

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Written answers

Information on all petroleum authorisations is updated and published on a quarterly basis on gov.ie (www.gov.ie/en/publication/10d43-acreage-reports-and-concession-maps/). The most recent such report and concession map cover the three month period ending 31 March 2022. In addition, Section 57 of the Petroleum and Other Minerals Development Act 1960 requires that I lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas every six months a report detailing all petroleum authorisations extant and granted during the period of the report. The last such report laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas was in respect of the six-month period ending 31 December 2021 and is available at www.gov.ie/en/collection/5da3e-six-monthly-reports-to-the-oireachtas-on-petroleum-exploration-and-development-in-ireland/

Furthermore, information related to applications to undertake activities under a Petroleum Authorisation are also made available on gov.ie

(www.gov.ie/en/collection/current-applications-for-statutory-petroleum-consent-notices/)

Neither I nor my Department comment on the potential of individual authorisations.

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