Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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Question 65: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he has taken to ensure Ireland's compliance with the environmental liability directive to hold operators whose activities have caused environmental damage financially liable for remedying this damage and to hold those whose activities have caused an imminent threat of environmental damage liable for taking preventative actions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28703/07]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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My Department has prepared a Screening Regulatory Impact Analysis of the options for transposing the Environmental Liability Directive. This document is available on my Department's website (www.environ.ie), and the views of interested parties have been sought on it. Preparatory work on drafting the legal instrument for transposing the Directive is underway and will be informed, inter alia, by the outcome of the consultation process.