Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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Question 95: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he intends to review the Environmental Protection Agency advisory committee in order to avail of the capacity and knowledge that exists within the Irish environmental NGO sector which would appear to be under-represented on the present committee. [16460/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I appointed an Advisory Committee to the Environmental Protection Agency in February 2006.

I am satisfied that the Advisory Committee as constituted leaves it well placed to carry out its functions under the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992. Its membership is broad and balanced both in the seven members appointed from the nominees of the different sectors and professions included in the five nominating panels and in four other members appointed directly by me. Accordingly, I have no proposal to review the composition of the Advisory Committee.