Shane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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466. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of public consultations held by his Department or by a State agency under the remit of his Department; the number of replies received per consultation; and the cost of each consultation in each of the years 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [26456/18]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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My Department has carried out a number of public consultations since 2011 to date this year in line with statutory and other requirements. In some instances the cost of the specific consultation is not available as the associated work would have been undertaken as part of the day to day operations of the particular Division in the Department involved and can not be quantified.

Information in respect of bodies and agencies under the aegis of my Department is a day to day matter for those organisations and my Department does not have the information sought in this regard. I will, however, request the relevant Agencies and bodies under the aegis of my Department to respond directly to the Deputy in the matter.

Details of all of the public consultations are outlined in tabular form below:

¹While this exercise was not a formal public consultation, the views of existing stakeholders were sought prior to the finalisation of the SDG National Implementation Plan 2018-2020.

²While this exercise was not a formal public consultation, DCCAE did hold a consultation workshop in relation to the draft Voluntary National Review (VNR) on the SDGs, prior to its finalisation. The VNR will be presented by Ireland at the 2018 session of the UN High Level Political Forum. The consultation workshop was conducted by DCCAE and hosted by the Department of the Taoiseach. Costs relate to catering for the event.

³While this exercise is not public consultation, DCCAE has provided the public with an opportunity to register their observations on the SDGs, and their importance to Ireland, through an online process on DCCAE’s website. DCCAE has undertaken to transmit these observations from the public to the 2018 session of the UN High Level Political Forum. This process is still underway, with a deadline for submission of observations to DCCAE 22/06/2018.

*Advertising costs only. All other costs would be within the day to day business of Inland Fisheries Division.

**Advertising costs only. All other costs would be within the day to day business of Inland Fisheries Division.

***These figures relate to the full cost of the IOSEA 4 process. It is not possible to identify, in the timeline provided, the components attributable to the public consultation.