It is agreed to hold it over until the next meeting.
No. 750 is a press release on the Irish Environmental Researchers colloquium in Limerick from 17 to 19 of February from Frank Convery of Comhar Sustainable Development Council. We note that. No. 751 is a letter from the Domestic Effluent Treatment Association which comments on the proposal to licence domestic septic tanks and sewerage treatment systems. We note that. Members can deal with the correspondence at local authority level as they see fit and we will forward it to the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.
No. 752 is a letter from the Irish Greyhound Board seeking an exemption for the greyhound industry from the Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 which is currently before the Seanad. This committee will discuss the Bill but we will forward the letter to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy John Gormley, at this stage in order to seek his views on it and ask him to give us a reply before the Bill is on Committee Stage. Is that agreed? Agreed.
No. 753 is a submission to the joint committee on the November flooding of Mardyke residents by Barry Keane and Cork Mardyke residents. We note that and members can take the correspondence into account in the questioning of the ESB today and in the compilation of a report on the flooding, which will be done after we complete our public hearings.
No. 754 is a letter from the private secretary of the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy John Gormley, regarding the cessation of turf cutting. We asked for detailed maps of the 32 bogs which will be affected by it. He said the Department would forward them to the committee in due course, but it would be a voluminous document as the maps involved run to hundreds of pages each. The ten year exemption is due for completion from this year onwards.