My colleague the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and the Environment has informed me that the forty-sixth sessions of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Subsidiary Body for Implementation and Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice, as well as the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement, will take place from 8 to 18 May 2017, in Bonn, Germany. These meetings take place annually and are key to making progress on a range of technical matters related to the implementation of the UNFCCC and of the Paris Agreement between each session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC.
Ireland's delegation at these meetings will comprise officials from the Department of Communications, Climate Action and the Environment, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Environmental Protection Agency and the delegation will liaise with other Departments and agencies, as appropriate, during the meetings, if issues relevant to their areas of responsibility arise.