asked the Minister for Fisheries if he will furnish details of a report on ports and landing places in County Clare which was carried out by a coastal survey team; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

I presume that the report referred to in the question is the report which was made by the survey team appointed by the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries in 1969 to examine and report to him on the ports and landing places in County Clare.

That report, like all similar reports on landing places in all the other coastal counties in the country, was prepared for the confidential information of the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries. None of these reports has been made public and I do not intend to depart from this practice.