Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 29 September 2010
1538 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department has collected the necessary geophysical and bathymetric data required to extend our continental shelf claim beyond 200 nautical miles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33185/10]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe Department completed the acquisition of the necessary geophysical and bathymetric surveys in 1995 and 1996. These data formed the basis for the three submissions which Ireland has made to date to the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS), covering the entire extent of Ireland's outer continental shelf (Porcupine Abyssal Plain, submitted 25 May 2005; Celtic Sea and the Bay of Biscay, submitted 19 May 2006; Hatton-Rockall Area, submitted 31 March 2009).
