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Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 11 May 2021

Tuesday, 11 May 2021

Questions (150)

Eoin Ó Broin

Question:

150. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the costs for subscriptions to international organisations and treaties; and the breakdown in terms of the cost of subscription per international organisation per year. [23854/21]

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My Department has been reconfigured on several occasions over the past 10 years. In view of this some of the information sought by the Deputy prior to 2016 is not readily available and its compilation would involve a disproportionate amount of time to compile. The available information is set out in the table below.

Treaty/Convention/International Organisation

Cost per year in €000

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

Geant Vereniging (Trusted Introducer Accreditation)

2 (paid in 2018)

1

1

1

FIRST (Forum of Incident Response & Security Teams)

3

2 (paid in 2020)

GEF-7 Global Environment Fund

1,420

1,420

1,420

1,420

1,420

1,420

1,420

1,440

1,440

1,430

UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme

470*

470*

470*

584*

508

478

538

550

476

600*

*USD $

Minamata Convention on Mercury

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7*

11*

18*

*USD $

Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

 

 

 

 

 

 

22*

22*

24*

 

 

 

*USD $

Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

 

 

 

 

 

13*

13*

13*

14*

 

*USD $

Geneva Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) / UNECE

 

 

 

 

42

38

34

36

42

 

Trust Fund for Vienna Convention on the Protection of the Ozone Layer (CPOL) / United Nations Environment Programme

 

 

 

 

2

2

2

3

3

 

Trust Fund for Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the Ozone layer / United Nations Environment Programme

 

 

 

 

16

17

16

16

18

 

Trust Fund for the Multilateral fund for the Montreal Protocol/ United Nations Environment Programme

 

 

 

 

616

616

782

782

783

 

Mandatory Contribution(Stockholm Convention) / United Nations Environment Programme

 

 

 

 

25

24

n/a

n/a

n/a

 

Aarhus Convention

 

 

 

 

8

8

8

8

8

8

PRTR Protocol to the Aarhus Convention

 

 

 

 

5

5

5

5

5

5

Irelands Contribution to the Regular Budget / IAEA

1,605

1,603

1,384

1,435

1,454

1,166

1,211

1,208

1,192

 

Irelands Contribution to the NEA/ DFAT

53

52

52

51

51

50

50

53

54

 

Fusion for Energy Membership Contribution/ITER

20

26

22

23

18

16

18

16

17

 

UN Framework Convention on Climate Change(UNFCC)

142

112

137

140

177

155

105

128

118

142

EuroGeoSurveys

10

7

6

10

6

6

6

6

6

6

UK Groundwater Forum

 

3

3

4

 

6

5

6

6

6

International Union of Geological Sciences

3

3

 

8

4

4

4

4

4

 

DEVAID Limited

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

3

 

European Marine Sand & Gravel Group

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

Integrated Ocean Drilling Programme (IODP)

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

 

Irish Shelf Petroleum Study Group (ISPSG)

0

21

0

21

0

21

21

21

21

21

IRENA( International Renewable Energy Agency)

 

 

 

 

94

 

74

 

66

75

72

58

International Energy Forum

 

 

 

 

 

22

 

23

 

20

 

20

22

20

Energy Charter Secretariat

 

 

 

 

31

 

31

 

31

 

36

 

36

 

36

 

International Energy Agency

 

 

 

 

107

 

118

 

130

 

142

 

151

 

 

Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal

28*

 28*

 25*

 25*

25*

 25*

 19*

20*

22*

21*

*USD $

International Lead and Zinc Study Group (ILZG)

10

11

10

10

10

10

9

9

8

8

ETSI

63

63

63

63

59

63

58

57

57

59

ITU

530

518

518

62

578

636*

563

573

600

636*

*Swiss Francs

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