Avril Doyle
Ceist:173 Mrs. Doyle asked the Minister for the Environment if he will make a statement on the items discussed at the Informal Council of Environment Ministers meeting on 15 May 1993 and on the Irish position on these items.
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173 Mrs. Doyle asked the Minister for the Environment if he will make a statement on the items discussed at the Informal Council of Environment Ministers meeting on 15 May 1993 and on the Irish position on these items.
The informal meeting of EC Environment Ministers of 15 May, 1993, which I attended, was concerned with the following subjects on which Presidency/Commission papers had been presented: transport and the environment, environment protection and employment, and environmental aspects of Community Structural Funds. Discussion of these questions was wide-ranging, and generally concentrated on the direction of future Community policy in these areas rather than on national situations. The Presidency did not formulate informal conclusions of the meeting.