Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)
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Question 824: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if it is still Government policy that local Agenda 21 be implemented by county development boards; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that county development boards are not aware of this responsibility; and his plans to ensure that the attention of county development boards is drawn to their responsibilities in regard to local Agenda 21. [22726/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Sustainable development considerations underpin the work of the county and city development boards, CDBs. In this context, the boards were asked to take account of sustainable development, including its environmental dimension, in the preparation of their strategies for social, cultural and economic development which were published in 2002.

The CDBs are reviewing their strategies in line with guidelines issued by my Department in January of this year. These guidelines specifically request that the review take account of Ireland's commitments to sustainable development at national, regional and local level, with particular regard to the priorities set out in Making Ireland's Development Sustainable, published in 2002, and current local Agenda 21 initiatives at local level.

Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)
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Question 825: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the provisions which have been put into place to implement the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context; the measures to allow for the consultation with the public on projects in other jurisdictions which are likely to have significant environmental effects on Ireland and for which an environmental impact statement has been required under European legislation (details supplied). [22728/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The UN-ECE Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context, signed at Espoo in Finland on 25 February 1991, has been fully implemented by section 174 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 and chapter 5 of Part 10 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, SI 600 of 2001. Article 132 of the 2001 regulations prescribes the procedure for consultation with the public on foot of information received from either a member state of the EU or a party to the UN-ECE convention. The convention was ratified by Ireland on 25 July 2002.