165 Deputy Olwyn Enright asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will be in a position to respond to an invitation of the 12 March 2010 by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Affairs to attend at a committee meeting to discuss the compensation claim on behalf of 15 landowners lodged with National Parks and Wildlife Service in August 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25956/10]

A response to this invitation issued from my office on 10 June 2010. I am not in a position to attend the proposed meeting. However, I have requested that my Department's National Parks and Wildlife Service be available to attend on my behalf.