Alan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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49. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he plans to introduce legislation or other measures from an environmental protection perspective to improve air and dust quality around quarries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61493/21]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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Under the Minerals Development Acts 1940 to 1999, my Department is responsible for the regulation of mineral exploration and mining. The Department has no function in respect of the regulation of quarries which is a matter for each relevant local authority under planning legislation which comes within the remit of the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage.