International Agreements

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 18 September 2013

Wednesday, 18 September 2013

Questions (876)

Andrew Doyle

Question:

876. Deputy Andrew Doyle asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of submissions his Department received through the public consultation phase on the implementation of the UNECE Aarhus Convention here on the implementation in Ireland of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters the Aarhus Convention; if he will provide in tabular form the names and organisations that made submissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37130/13]

Written answers

Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government

Twenty two submissions were received during the first stage of public consultation on the first National Implementation Report of the Aarhus Convention in Ireland. I will be publishing these submissions on my Department’s website in the coming weeks.

A table detailing the names/organisations of those that made submissions is provided as follows.

Organisation / Individual

Environment Pillar

An Taisce

Fís Nua

Peadar O’Ceallaigh

Eirgrid

Fred Logue

Social Justice Ireland

Coillte

National Council for People with Disabilities

Teresa Ryan-Feehan

Irish Water

European Platform Against Wind Farms

Friends of the Irish Environment

Denis Leonard

Irish Planning Institute

Irish Wind Energy Association

Áine Ryall

The Heritage Council

David Browne

Maria Cunningham

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Owen Martin