Noel Coonan (Tipperary North, Fine Gael)
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Question 269: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if the INSPIRE Directive, quality assurance for environmental management, as adopted in 2010 has been implemented; if not, the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16548/11]

Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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I presume the Question refers to the EU INSPIRE Directive (2007/2/EC) which entered into force on 15 May 2007 and which aims to create a European Union spatial data infrastructure to enable the sharing of environmental spatial information among public sector organisations and better facilitate public access to spatial information across Europe.

The INSPIRE Directive was transposed into Irish law on 1 August 2010. The Directive will be implemented in stages with the INSPIRE "roadmap" setting out target dates for implementation of these stages: full implementation is required by 2019. My Department has prepared an INSPIRE Directive Implementation Programme to meet the roadmap deadlines and to manage the work required to develop an Irish Spatial Data Infrastructure that is both INSPIRE Directive compliant and effective.