Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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266. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department will be represented in the Irish delegation to the meetings of the UNFCCC SBI and SBSTA in Bonn in May 2017; and if it will be attending the side events on greening with jobs: decent work and just transition in the Paris Agreement and policy solutions for a climate friendly materials sector. [22349/17]

Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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My colleague the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and the Environment has informed me that the forty-sixth sessions of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Subsidiary Body for Implementation and Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice, as well as the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement, will take place from 8 to 18 May 2017, in Bonn, Germany. These meetings take place annually and are key to making progress on a range of technical matters related to the implementation of the UNFCCC and of the Paris Agreement between each session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC.

Ireland's delegation at these meetings will comprise officials from the Department of Communications, Climate Action and the Environment, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Environmental Protection Agency and the delegation will liaise with other Departments and agencies, as appropriate, during the meetings, if issues relevant to their areas of responsibility arise.