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The Commission has launched a public consultation to gather views on the 7th EU Environmental Action Programme (7th EAP), which will set out priority objectives to be pursued up until 2020. The consultation remains open until 1 June. European Commissioner for Environment Janez Potočnik said: “The EU is home to some of the most ambitious environmental rules to be found anywhere in the world. These rules are doing a lot to protect our environment and people. [...]
On 12 April 2012 Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government, Phil Hogan T.D., announced a review and public consultation of the ‘smoky coal ban’ regulations. The purpose of the consultation exercise is to inform and assist a review of the smoky coal ban regulations to ensure that they remain fit for purpose in safeguarding air quality by limiting harmful emissions of air pollutants arising from the use of residential fuels. The consultation paper reviews [...]
Members of the public are being invited to make submissions on the draft standards over the next four weeks. The draft standards are available to view and download from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government’s website: www.environ.ie. The closing date for receipt of submissions is 4 pm on Friday, 30 March, 2012. Submissions in relation to the draft standards can be made by email to wate…@environ.ie or, in writing, to the address [...]
This consultation is being held in the context of the ongoing policy development process initiated by Minister Hogan in November 2011 with the publication of the Review of national climate policy. At that time, the Minister announced a three-pronged approach to the development of a robust and comprehensive response to Ireland’s obligations, challenges and opportunities in the area of climate policy: A public consultation process to ensure the widest possible range of views are brought [...]
Area of Activity: Climate Change
The Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) will be holding a public meeting on Thursday 1st March in the Clarion Hotel IFSC, Dublin. The subject of this meeting will be the Proposed Decision Paper CER/12/013 “Regulatory Treatment of the BGE Interconnectors” published by the CER on 17th February 2012. See link below. Public Meeting Notice “The Regulatory Treatment of the BGE Interconnectors” CER12013 (18).pdf(0.21 MB, Adobe PDF) Parties wishing to attend and/or make a short presentation should [...]
Submissions to Inter-Departmental Group on Property Tax The Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government, Mr. Phil Hogan, T.D. has established an Inter-Departmental Group on Property Tax. This Group will consider the design of an equitable property tax, to be approved by Government, to replace the household charge. The property tax is to: meet the immediate financial requirements of the EU/IMF programme; provide a stable funding base for the local authority sector in the medium [...]
Simon Coveney TD, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, today launched a public consultation process on how to harness the potential of Ireland’s vast marine resource to tap into a Trillion Euro global market for marine products & services (including seafood, tourism, shipping, oil and gas, renewable ocean energy and new applications for health, medicine and technology). Launching the public consultation ‘Our Ocean Wealth’, Minister Coveney said, “We need to change the way we [...]
Area of Activity: Marine
Background The Programme for Government contains a commitment to introduce a statutory register of lobbyists, and rules concerning the practice of lobbying. The Public Service Reform Programme launched by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform on 17 November 2011 contains a commitment to prepare legislation to meet this objective in 2012. Context The Government Reform Unit in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has commenced a review of the international approaches to the [...]
Area of Activity: Governance
The Programme for Government committed to the creation of Irish Water, a State company that will take over the water investment and maintenance programmes of the 34 county and city councils with the key aim of supervising and accelerating the significant investment needed to upgrade the State’s water and sewerage infrastructure. The Programme also provides for the introduction of a fair funding model to deliver clean and reliable water with the objective of installing water [...]
Area of Activity: Water
Framework for Sustainable Development for Ireland The Minister for the Environment. Community and Local Government, Mr Phil Hogan, has launched a new draft Framework for Sustainable Development for Ireland for public consultation. Sustainable development is a continuous, guided process of economic, environmental and social change aimed at promoting wellbeing of citizens now and in the future. While considerable progress has been made in integrating sustainable principles into public policy making in Ireland since the first [...]
Area of Activity: Sustainability
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