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Environmental Policy

Environmental Protection

1) Ensure greater coordination between, environmental regulation and planning control

2) Establish a formalised structure for the integration of environmental and human health assessment, monitoring and decision making capacities

3) Change in Advisory Board appointment procedures of the EPA

4) Establish a forum of appeal for the Integration Pollution Prevention and Control license system.

5) The development of an all-island structure for environmental protection and enforcement

6) Enact the provision in the Environmental Protection Act to subject local authorities' sewage treatment activities to an EPA licensing regime

7) Review levels of fines and sanctions available to courts.

8) Increase consistency and severity sentencing in environmental court cases of and the establishment of an environmental court.

9) Establish a definition of contaminated land in Irish environmental law

10) Measures to address delays suffered by parties to judicial review litigation

11) Allocate additional resources to the EPA, with a particular emphasis on investment in monitoring and enforcement activities.

12) Introduce annual audits of local authority environmental performance and invest in local government environmental enforcement capacity e.g. training, consistent approach to enforcement, minimum inspection criteria and best practice.

13) Access to environmental justice and the right to participate on environmental decision-making

14) Establishment of National Environmental Action Plan

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