Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 28 March 2023
291. Deputy Noel Grealish asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his officials have future plans to delist Lough Corrib in County Galway as a special area of conservation and Natura 2000 site considering that the SAC holds a significant stock of vulnerable Atlantic salmon, EU Habitats Directive Annex II, and a unique genetic strain of brown trout, salmo ferox; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15062/23]
View answerWhen a site is designated as part of the Natura 2000 Network under the European Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats) Regulations 2011, it becomes a European Site in legal terms. The site is publicly notified and transmitted to the European Commission for inclusion on the Commission’s list of Sites of Community Importance (SCI). Sites accepted by the Commission as SCIs are published in the official journal of the European Union. The site mentioned by the Deputy has been a European site since 1999.
There are no plans under consideration to delist the site referred to in the Question.
