Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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The national air quality monitoring stations are operated, maintained, and monitored by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Programme. My Department has provided funding for a significant upgrade to the network in recent years and, as a consequence, the number of monitoring stations has increased from 29 in 2017 to 114 today. The expansion will be complete when the remaining stations are connected in 2023 which will bring the final number of stations to 116.

Dublin Airport undertakes a voluntary ambient air quality monitoring programme. This includes the operation of an on-site air quality monitoring station that measures a range of parameters on a continuous basis, complemented by monthly monitoring, undertaken at 11 locations in communities surrounding the airport. Dublin Airport air quality monitoring station data is provided to the EPA on a continuous basis and can be viewed on the EPA website: www.epa.ie/air/quality/

Dublin Airport also publishes quarterly reports on air quality monitoring which helps to keep local communities informed, and these reports are available at:

www.dublinairport.com/corporate/corporate-social-responsibility/air

Monitoring results indicate good air quality with concentrations of the main transport related parameters below the national ambient air quality standards.