Climate Change Policy

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 10 March 2021

Wednesday, 10 March 2021

Questions (173)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

Question:

173. Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his views on the volume of feedback received to date by his Department regarding the reviews of the implementation of two international conventions relating to the environment, namely the Aarhus Convention and the United Nation’s Economic Commission for Europe Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1576/21]

Written answers

Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications

Seventeen submissions were received in response to the joint public consultation on the 2021 National Implementation Reports for the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (the ‘Aarhus Convention’) and the Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTR). While this is a decrease in the number of submissions received in 2016 during the preparation of the 2017 National Implementation Reports when 26 submissions were received, the depth and quality of the submissions is notable.

Question No. 174 withdrawn.