Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 12 December 2006
149 Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the establishment of an all-Ireland environment protection agency in view of the OECD recommendations that environmental issues should be dealt with on an-island wide basis; and if he will raise this issue when he meets his Six Counties counterpart in the North during their next meeting. [42464/06]
Amharc ar fhreagraThere is already good collaboration between the EPA and the relevant Northern Ireland authorities in relation to certain functions, especially environmental research and monitoring.
The question of the establishment of new North/South Bodies was addressed in the St. Andrews Agreement which provides that the Irish Government and the Northern Ireland Executive under the auspices of the NSMC would carry out a review of the North/South implementation bodies, including an examination of the case for additional bodies in areas of co-operation where mutual benefit would be derived.
