Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 14 October 2025
326. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Transport for an update on his Department’s review of the National Ports Policy, as committed to in the Climate Action Plan 2025 and due in Quarter 3 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55485/25]
Amharc ar fhreagraMy Department plans to conduct a public consultation on a draft version of the revised National Ports Policy in Q4 2025, subject to the completion of the relevant associated environmental assessment of the draft document. This second public consultation will build on the thematic issues paper, published in October 2023, to which over 70 responses were received and assessed by Department's officials. Following the first public consultation on the issues paper and consideration of the responses received from stakeholders, the Irish Maritime Development Office was commissioned to carry out further research on national port capacity post-2040, which research is presently being reviewed.
Once the public consultation on the draft revision to the National Ports Policy is launched in Q4 2025, I look forward to the same level of stakeholder engagement with this second public consultation as occurred with the first.
