Camillus Glynn (Fianna Fail)

I move amendment No. 1:

To delete all words after ''Seanad Éireann'' and substitute the following:

''welcomes:

— the progress made to date across a broad range of Government policies and programmes which serve to enhance significantly the protections afforded to the Irish environment;

— the intention to publish, shortly, the Heads of the Climate Change Bill 2010, which will provide a statutory framework for the core national priority of major and continued reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in the context of transition to a low carbon economy;

— the suite of legislation introduced since 2007 to protect and improve water quality including giving statutory effect to the Water Framework Directive and the Bathing Water Directive; establishing an authorisation system for waste water treatment plant discharges; regulating for best practice in the management of nutrients in the agricultural sector; and supporting the enforcement of strengthened regulations governing the supply of drinking water;

— the adoption of the first cycle of River Basin Management Plans to protect and improve water quality on a river basin district basis;

— the Water Services Investment Programme 2010-2012 supported by funding of over €500 million for 2010, building on similar levels of investment in recent years and reflecting environmental priorities identified on a River Basin Management Plan basis;

— the continuing funding commitments to the EPA and local authorities towards the costs associated with environmental enforcement related activities;

— the progress made to date in dealing with industrial legacy sites in a manner consistent with good practice and minimisation of risk to human health and the environment; and

— the continued commitment to achieving the full delivery of those commitments in the renewed Programme for Government designed to support the objective of ensuring a high quality, robustly protected Irish environment.''.

Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I reserve my right to speak later.