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Environment
A high quality environment is essential for a good quality of life and is a key component of sustainable development. The challenges to the environment include:
- Meeting international commitments on air emissions (green house gases and acidifying gases)
- Eutrophication Prevention
- Waste Management
The Department is also responsible for the maintenance of up-to-date emergency plans to minimize the harm to public health in Ireland in the event of a nuclear accident abroad.
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Quicklinks
National Emergency Plan for Nuclear Accidents
Contacts
Publications & Documents
- Environment Policy Statement 2008 (pdf, 21 kb)
- Deering Submission (doc, 92 kb)
- DG Env Submission (doc, 462 kb)
- Ramelton submission (doc, 1,000 kb)
- Kelly submission (doc, 35 kb)
- Masterson submission (doc, 16 kb)
- Murphy submission (doc, 19 kb)
- Keenan submission (doc, 9 kb)
- Kramer submission (doc, 9 kb)
- Cllr O'Kelly submission (doc, 10 kb)
- Gordon submission (doc, 10 kb)
- Leyden NUIG submission (doc, 6,283 kb)
- Nolan submission (doc, 39 kb)
- Mescall & Assoc submission (doc, 162 kb)
- HSE & DoHC submission (doc, 29 kb)
- Riordan submission (doc, 119 kb)
- Keane submission (doc, 50 kb)
- Duffy SOLR submission (doc, 41 kb)
- TCD submission (doc, 45 kb)
- O'Keane St John's Grove submission (doc, 73 kb)
- McDermot RAID submission (doc, 78 kb)
- Wilde submission (doc, 12 kb)
- Cullen Irish Doctors submission (doc, 25 kb)
- O'Kelly submission (doc, 11 kb)
- Delaney submission (doc, 11 kb)
- Lee submission (doc, 69 kb)
- Fitzpatrick submission (doc, 80 kb)
- Garda Siochana submission (doc, 184 kb)
- Moran submission (doc, 11 kb)
- Merrick submission (doc, 11 kb)
- D'arcy submission (doc, 9 kb)
- FIE submission (doc, 38 kb)
- Proctor submission (doc, 39 kb)
- O'Regan submission (doc, 14 kb)
- Cullen submission (doc, 41 kb)
- Martin - Repak submission (doc, 248 kb)
- Cooney submission (doc, 50 kb)
- Flahavan submission (doc, 13 kb)
- Fitzgerald submission (doc, 36 kb)
- Hennessy submission (doc, 43 kb)
- Environmental Pillar submission (doc, 928 kb)
- Michael Ewing submission (doc, 208 kb)
- IBEC submission (doc, 147 kb)
- Hontelez submission (doc, 10 kb)
- Gaynor submission (doc, 10 kb)
- Waterways Ireland submission (doc, 24 kb)
- Presentation Ireland submission (doc, 381 kb)
- Glynn submission (doc, 11 kb)
- Cork Harbour Alliance submission (doc, 110 kb)
- Sweetman submission (doc, 232 kb)
- O'Farrell submission (doc, 10 kb)
- McCarthy submission (doc, 12 kb)
- Waters submission (doc, 83 kb)
- North submission (doc, 48 kb)
- Irish Expert Body on Fluorides & Health submission (doc, 60 kb)
- Cllr Lawlor submission (doc, 10 kb)
- Nolan submission (doc, 39 kb)
- A HSA Stategy Statement (doc, 1,184 kb)
- Health & Safety Authority submission (doc, 21 kb)
- Barnes submission (doc, 158 kb)
- RPII submission (doc, 699 kb)
- IFA submission (doc, 176 kb)
- Joint submission of the Enterprise Development Agencies (doc, 308 kb)
- Johnstown Community Association submission (doc, 12 kb)
- Chambers Ireland submission (doc, 81 kb)
- Irish Environmental Law submission (doc, 78 kb)
- Carey submission (doc, 11 kb)
- Rooney submission (doc, 11 kb)
- DCENR submission (doc, 29 kb)
- Northern Ireland Environment Agency submission (doc, 66 kb)
- Stringer submission (doc, 53 kb)
- McKeogh submission (doc, 133 kb)
- ESB submission (doc, 56 kb)
- HSE submission (doc, 24 kb)
- Teagasc submission (doc, 426 kb)
- CCMA submission (doc, 125 kb)
- Dooley submission (doc, 12 kb)
- Leonard submission (doc, 11 kb)
- Shanahan submission (doc, 69 kb)
- Hicks submission (doc, 10 kb)
- Tyrell submission (doc, 32 kb)
- Kennedy submission (doc, 26 kb)
- Greene submission (doc, 9 kb)
- Duffy submission (doc, 622 kb)
- EPA Advisory Committee submission (doc, 83 kb)
- Costello submission (doc, 35 kb)
- Assoc of County & City Councils submission (doc, 62 kb)
- 1 Meitheal Information Booklet (doc, 427 kb)
- 2 Building a High Performance Organisation (doc, 95 kb)
- 3 EPA Learning Framework (doc, 325 kb)
- Meitheal EPA Partnership Committee (doc, 174 kb)
- more publications
News and Speeches
- 18/06/10: Gormley opens new Department offices in Wexford
- 12/05/10: 18th session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, May 2010, New York
- 22/02/10: Minister Gormley announces membership of the Environmental Protection Agency Review Group
- 11/01/10: Gormley welcomes Launch of International Year of Biodiversity
- Press/Media
Legislation
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