PQ 299
328 Deputy Tony McLoughlin asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the fact that the legal ownership rights to 27,000 square miles of oil and gas were sold in 1958 for €500 by the then Minister for Industry and Commerce and that this legal arrangement still stands resulting in any potential gas or oil extraction being of little impact to the taxpayer. [35892/11]
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328 Deputy Tony McLoughlin asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the fact that the legal ownership rights to 27,000 square miles of oil and gas were sold in 1958 for €500 by the then Minister for Industry and Commerce and that this legal arrangement still stands resulting in any potential gas or oil extraction being of little impact to the taxpayer. [35892/11]
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