Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 June 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Review: Discussion

3:00 pm

Mr. Niall Ó Donnchú:

I will give the Deputy a guarantee the NARGC will be engaged with in the stakeholder process we have with regard to this matter. The rest of the Deputy's question has a lot of caveats around cast-iron guarantees. I do not think anybody sitting here will give the Deputy a cast-iron guarantee of anything. That would not be telling the truth, to be fair. The NPWS absolutely accepts NARGC is a really important organisation to us and in representing rural pursuits and will be engaged by us in any stakeholder forum that is relevant to its area of interest.