29th September 2023
Water Forum Presentation to WPAC – River Basin Management Plan 2022-2027
Governance
Water Forum Presentation to WPAC
River Basin Management Plan 2022-2027
29th September 2022
WFD Governance Structures
AIE Request: NPWS Management Board Minutes 2020-2023
AIE-055-2023
NPWS Management Board
Niall Ó Donnchú (NÓD), Ainle Ni Bhriain (ANB), Andy Bleasdale (AB), Catriona Ryan (CR),
Ciara Carberry (CC), Malachy Corcoran (MC), Sorcha de Brúch (SDB), Suzanne Nally (SN), Maryellen
Sacco Power (MSP).
ARC Steering Group
Conservation Measures Projects
Red Bog SAC
Consents currently in place for the NHA within Lough Corrib SAC
Working group to respond to the ARO on Peatlands
Nature Restoration Law
Designations Unit will meet with Deirdre Lynn to discuss the European Biodiversity Strategy pledges.
Corncrake Life will be extended and brought into NPWS as an ongoing project
NPWS in the lead on the Nature Restoration Law, needs to be resourced with an interdepartmental subcommittee
Sarah Farrell from Legal unit to present to the Management Board on the work of the legal unit
monthly biodiversity water synergy meeting
Seamus Hassett vice chair of the Wildlife Crime Committee
Update Due to the Commission for the infringement case, a working group will be established for actions on blanket bogs.
Ban of leadshot over wetlands, agreed to go with map 1
Boora Grey Partridge Project
Paul Cassidy attended the meeting and presented on his work to update the Wildlife Act.
Review of Working Groups
An update to the response for the Additional Reasoned Opinion on the Peatlands case has issued to the European Commission.
Nominees from each directorate for the Wildlife Crime Committee
Terms of reference for the Cross Directorate Committee on Blanket Bog were passed
Approval was given to start the process to designate Lough Conn as a Nature Reserve
Query from Marine Envt on designating marine SACs as OSPAR protected areas
Policy issues (national level)
– Nature Restoration Law
– Additional Reasoned Opinion on Peatlands Infringement Case
– Red Bog SAC 397 Reply from the Commission
Measures Case
Designation pledges under the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030
Presentation: SNaP, Claire Cooper and Rebecca Jeffrey
SNaP Cross Directorate Team
SSCOs on SPAs
GIS and Biodiversity Data Requirements Form/Process
Significant cross-cutting matters
– SDF inconsistency with the SSCOs
– SNaP and Conservation Actions for Lagoons
– Secondment National Experts – Priorities 2023
– Coillte Draft Scope and Actions for 2023
– Analysis of NPWS v- ortho imagery
– Package Meeting 27/04
– Coillte meeting attendance and date
– Peatland Rehabilitation TRA Conference
Significant cross-cutting matters
– Note from DG Environment in relation to renewable energy
– ARC Guidance
Proposed UNESCO Biosphere Reserve
L. Ree & Environs
Peregrine Wild Take Draw 2023
From records held in WLU there are approximately 230 peregrine falcons (or hybrids) held by falconers in Ireland.
Burren National Park Visitor Centre
Business Case for the establishment of a Corncrake/Traonach Conservation Programme as part of the Corncrake/Traonach Post-LIFE plan
Conservation Measures Unit
NPWS AP Workshop
Annex II Bird Species on Open Seasons Order
NPWS Management Board
Strategic Action Plan for the renewal of the NPWS 2022-2024
Mid- South Division
Nenagh 01/11/2022
Management Board Presentation
Strategic Nature Project (SNaP) Ireland Application
Presentation to NPWS Management Board
Claire Cooper / Rebecca Jeffrey
17/01/2023
Proposal from Ecological Assessment Unit to engage in the TAIEX-Environmental Implementation Review (EIR) Peer 2 Peer Scheme
AIE Refusal: Release of Board Minutes, Inland Fisheries Ireland
AIE 023-013-IFI
Records in Excel, with substantive / project related records highlighted
AIE: Coillte Board Minutes, Internal Review
AIE Request 20230115
Under the AIE Regs to request the following in relation to meetings of the Coillte Board for the Years 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 YTD
EPA Board Meeting Minutes for the years 2021, 2022 and 2023
AIE request OCCS AIE 2023 03
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/170aNvIX_MuRR7nn12CQixt-BOp57jggs?usp=sharing
2023 Board Minutes
Records 110 – 100
Record 99 – 90
Record 89-80
Records 79-70
Records 69 -60
Records 59-50
Records 49 -40
Records 39 – 30
Records 29-20
Records 19-10
Records 9 -1
Register of Public Sector Bodies 2022 – Provisional
CSO statistical publication, 20 April 2023
The central government sector (S.1311) includes all bodies established through political processes and for whose activities a Minister of government or other responsible person is accountable to the people through the Oireachtas.
This responsibility extends to the presentation of detailed audited annual accounts to the Oireachtas. Central government includes legislative, judicial and executive bodies established in this manner. The sector does not include public corporations or enterprises engaged in the production of commercial services or goods. The main categories of central government bodies are:
- Departments of State including any additional voted expenditure under the aegis of the Minister;
- Extra-Budgetary Funds for which separate accounts are maintained and which are directly administered by departments; and
- Bodies which are not departments but which are funded almost entirely from the Exchequer, are subject to controls and may be regarded as extensions of government departments.
Failure of EPA’s financial liability instruments
OEE AIE 2023 15
Responses to AIE
1. Any materials, protocols and/or references considered by the EPA when assessing the suitability of financial instruments such as Insurance policies in place of sureties and/or cash bonds when deciding on appropriate provision for licenced facilities in relation to CRAMP and ELRA.
All EPA guidance documents are available at Financial provision for environmental liabilities | Environmental Protection Agency (epa.ie). The 2015 guidance document Guidance on Financial Provision for Environmental Liabilities is probably most relevant to the request.
2. List of all facilities in the State upon which the EPA has made calls on financial provision in respect of CRAMP and/or ELRA in respect of licenced facilities in the period 1 January 2010 to date.
The EPA has made no calls on financial provision put in place by licensees in the period January 2010 to date.
3. In respect of No. 2, please indicate the nature of the call made i.e. what type of financial instrument did the EPA have recourse to.
Not applicable because the EPA has made no calls on financial provision put in place by licensees in the period January 2010 to date.
4. In respect of any Insurance policies which the EPA have had recourse to under No. 3 above, please indicate any instances in which a call was made in respect of an Insurance policy and same was not met by the Insurer concerned.
Not applicable because the EPA has made no calls on financial provision put in place by licensees in the period January 2010 to date.
5. Any analysis or reports conducted by or on behalf of the EPA on the risk of failure of financial liability instruments when called upon.”
Not applicable because the EPA has made no calls on financial provision put in place by licensees in the period January 2010 to date.
EPA: Various records provided under AIE, including EPA Advisory Committee meeting minutes, Committee End of Term Report, Fingal CoCo waste derogations, and EPA request to Dept for additional drinking water enforcement powers
OCCS AIE 2023 02
AIE Grant Letter
7th meeting of the 8th EPA Advisory Committee was held on Friday 28th October 2022
8th meeting of the 8th EPA Advisory Committee was held on Wednesday 11th January 2023
Report of the 7th Advisory Committee of the Environmental Protection Agency to the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Licence Register No.: W0183-01
Licensee: Starrus Eco Holdings Ltd
Facility: Millennium Business Park, Grange, Ballycoolin, Dublin 11
Licence Register No.: W0261-02
Licensee: Starrus Eco Holdings Ltd
Facility: Cappagh Road, Finglas, Dublin 11
Letter from EPA CEO to Graham Doyle, Secretary General, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Subject: Enforcement Powers under the Drinking Water Regulations (S.I. 122 of 2014, as amended)
Audit Report for: EPA Headquarters
Surveillance Audit – Management System Certification