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Mr. Eoghan Murphy T.D. Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, invites submissions, observations and comments on the Draft Climate Change Sectoral Adaptation Plan for Water Quality and Water Services Infrastructure.
Climate change is arguably one of the most important and pervasive global threats we face in the 21st century. Its main impacts are projected to relate to increasing temperatures, sea level rise, changing rainfall patterns with wetter winters and drier summers, and more intense storms. Examples of how these changes impact on Ireland have been seen in recent extreme weather events, such as the floods of the winter of 2015/16, Storm Ophelia in 2017 and the prolonged drought conditions of Summer 2018.
Climate Change is widely recognised by scientists and policymakers as posing significant, increasing risks, with exponentially rising costs - to the environment, to society, and to the global economy.
This Draft Climate Change Sectoral Adaptation Plan:
This Plan will provide strategic direction across the water sectors and will inform the design, resourcing and review of water-related adaptation policies and measures. Its development is a commitment of the River Basin Management Plan for Ireland 2018 – 2021, and it will have a significant influence on Ireland’s third-cycle River Basin Management Plan 2022 – 2027, on which work will commence later this year.
The Climate Change Sectoral Adaptation Plan’s development is guided by the Government’s National Adaptation Framework, which sets the objective of transitioning to a climate-resilient and environmentally sustainable economy by 2050.
It is essential that we thoroughly assess the key risks and vulnerabilities of our water sector and aquatic environment to climate change, and work to ensure that climate adaptation measures are mainstreamed into all national, regional and local policy making. The views of the public are an essential element in ensuring the delivery of a robust and thorough finalised Plan.
Therefore, the objective of this public consultation is to invite all interested parties to contribute their views in relation to the Draft Plan during this 6-week consultation process.
The consultation will close on Friday 12 July 2019.
Please email your submissions, observations and comments to us directly at: rbmp@housing.gov.ie
Or if you prefer, you can send them by post to:
Consultation Climate Change
Water Advisory Unit
Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government
Custom House
Dublin 1
D01 W6X0
Interested parties are invited to make written submissions or comments no later than Friday 12 July 2019.
Draft Climate Change Sectoral Adaptation Plan for Water Quality and Water Services Infrastructure
All submissions and comments submitted to the Department for this purpose are subject to release under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2014 and the European Communities (Access to Information on the Environment) Regulations 2007- 2014. Submissions are also subject to Data Protection legislation.
Personal, confidential or commercially sensitive information should not be included in your submission and it will be presumed that all information contained in your submission is releasable under the Freedom of Information Act 2014.
Responses will inform the further development of the Climate Change Sectoral Adaptation Plan for Water Quality and Water Services Infrastructure. Please note that submissions received may be made available on the Department’s website. In any event, all submissions received will be subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act and Data Protection legislation. See also Private Statement under the Documents link above.