Michael McCarthy (Cork South West, Labour)
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I remind members to switch off their mobile phones.

The select sub-committee will consider the Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014 until 6.15 p.m. If the proceedings on the Bill will not have been concluded by that time, we will adjourn until a later date. Is that agreed? Agreed.

The Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015 provides for the transfer of certain functions under the Bourn Vincent Memorial Park Act 1932 to the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, to amend and extend the Air Pollution Act 1987, the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992, the Waste Management Act 1996 and other Acts, and to provide for related matters.

I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government with special responsibility for rural economic development issues, Deputy Ann Phelan, and the officials from the Department. I thank them for their attendance. We will consider the Bill section by section.