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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, May 09, 2011

QUESTION NO. 15

QUESTION: Councillor E. Tuffy

To ask the Manager if he will write to the Minister for the Environment, requesting information on the Minister's intention in regards to publishing a National Climate Change Adaptation Policy, drawing the attention of the Minister to several requests from this Council to the previous Minister urging the publication of such an Adaptation Policy, as promised in the 2007 White Paper on Climate Change, and in the revised Programme for Government of the previous Government, and drawing the Minister's attention to the absence of a reference to Adaptation for the consequences of Climate Change in the new Programme for Government?

REPLY:

If the question is approved a letter will issue to the Minister for the Environment Community and Local Government and a copy of his reply will be circulated when received.