Written answers
Tuesday, 11 May 2021
Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
International Bodies
Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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150. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the costs for subscriptions to international organisations and treaties; and the breakdown in terms of the cost of subscription per international organisation per year. [23854/21]
Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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My Department has been reconfigured on several occasions over the past 10 years. In view of this some of the information sought by the Deputy prior to 2016 is not readily available and its compilation would involve a disproportionate amount of time to compile.The available information is set out in the table below.
| Treaty/Convention/International Organisation | Cost per year in €000 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
| Geant Vereniging (Trusted Introducer Accreditation) | 2 (paid in 2018) | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| FIRST (Forum of Incident Response & Security Teams) | 3 | 2 (paid in 2020) | ||||||||
| GEF-7 Global Environment Fund | 1,420 | 1,420 | 1,420 | 1,420 | 1,420 | 1,420 | 1,420 | 1,440 | 1,440 | 1,430 |
| UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme | 470* | 470* | 470* | 584* | 508 | 478 | 538 | 550 | 476 | 600* *USD $ |
| Minamata Convention on Mercury | 7* | 11* | 18* *USD $ | |||||||
| Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants | 22* | 22* | 24* | *USD $ | ||||||
| Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety | 13* | 13* | 13* | 14* | *USD $ | |||||
| Geneva Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) / UNECE | 42 | 38 | 34 | 36 | 42 | |||||
| Trust Fund for Vienna Convention on the Protection of the Ozone Layer (CPOL) / United Nations Environment Programme | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Trust Fund for Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the Ozone layer / United Nations Environment Programme | 16 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 18 | |||||
| Trust Fund for the Multilateral fund for the Montreal Protocol/ United Nations Environment Programme | 616 | 616 | 782 | 782 | 783 | |||||
| Mandatory Contribution(Stockholm Convention) / United Nations Environment Programme | 25 | 24 | n/a | n/a | n/a | |||||
| Aarhus Convention | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | ||||
| PRTR Protocol to the Aarhus Convention | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | ||||
| Irelands Contribution to the Regular Budget / IAEA | 1,605 | 1,603 | 1,384 | 1,435 | 1,454 | 1,166 | 1,211 | 1,208 | 1,192 | |
| Irelands Contribution to the NEA/ DFAT | 53 | 52 | 52 | 51 | 51 | 50 | 50 | 53 | 54 | |
| Fusion for Energy Membership Contribution/ITER | 20 | 26 | 22 | 23 | 18 | 16 | 18 | 16 | 17 | |
| UN Framework Convention on Climate Change(UNFCC) | 142 | 112 | 137 | 140 | 177 | 155 | 105 | 128 | 118 | 142 |
| EuroGeoSurveys | 10 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| UK Groundwater Forum | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | ||
| International Union of Geological Sciences | 3 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | ||
| DEVAID Limited | 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| European Marine Sand & Gravel Group | 2 | |||||||||
| Integrated Ocean Drilling Programme (IODP) | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | |
| Irish Shelf Petroleum Study Group (ISPSG) | 0 | 21 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 |
| IRENA( International Renewable Energy Agency) | 94 | 74 | 66 | 75 | 72 | 58 | ||||
| International Energy Forum | 22 | 23 | 20 | 20 | 22 | 20 | ||||
| Energy Charter Secretariat | 31 | 31 | 31 | 36 | 36 | 36 | ||||
| International Energy Agency | 107 | 118 | 130 | 142 | 151 | |||||
| Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal | 28* | 28* | 25* | 25* | 25* | 25* | 19* | 20* | 22* | 21* *USD $ |
| International Lead and Zinc Study Group (ILZG) | 10 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 |
| ETSI | 63 | 63 | 63 | 63 | 59 | 63 | 58 | 57 | 57 | 59 |
| ITU | 530 | 518 | 518 | 62 | 578 | 636* | 563 | 573 | 600 | 636* *Swiss Francs |
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