Public Consultation on Updating Clean Air Strategy 2025

The air we breathe is fundamental to our health, our environment, and our quality of life. In Ireland, while our air quality generally compares favourably with many of our European neighbours, we still face challenges. These include localised issues in urban areas as well as meeting the stringent health-based targets set by the World Health Organization and our Clean Air Strategy.

The changes that are required will have positive economic and societal co-benefits, including cleaner air, warmer homes, better health and lower carbon emissions, helping Ireland move towards a more sustainable economy for the long term.

The purpose of the Clean Air Strategy as published in 2023 was to set out the priorities and policy framework to ensure continued reductions in air pollution emissions. It established a number of high-level actions to drive delivery of air quality improvements.

Following the completion of our two progress reports the Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment is now seeking feedback on the strategy in order to assess the potential for new actions to be included. This public consultation will collect views and recommendations from the public on how the Strategy could potentially be updated so that it remains fit for purpose and to ensure that we can deliver continuous improvements in air quality.

More information on the Strategy, our air quality challenges, and actions taken to date can be found in the consultation document below.

We have developed some specific questions that may assist in formulating a response.

On Ireland’s Clean Air Strategy:

· Is it doing what it should?

· What’s working well?

· What’s not working well?

· How could it work better?

Respondents are welcome to provide submissions through one of the following methods:

1. email to airquality@dcee.gov.ie

2. Post to: Clean Air Strategy Public Consultation

Air Quality Division

Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment

Newtown Road

Wexford

Y35 AP90

3. Online submission at Online Survey

Privacy Information

Please note that responses to this consultation are subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2014 (FOI), Access to Information on the Environment Regulations 2007-2018 (AIE) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

Please also note that the Department intends to publish the contents of all submissions received to the technical consultation on its website. The Department will redact personal data prior to publication. In responding to this consultation, parties should clearly indicate where their responses contain personal information, commercially sensitive information or confidential information which they would not wish to be released under FOI, AIE or otherwise published.

We would like to draw your attention to the Department's Data Privacy Notice which is available on our website and explains how and when we collect personal data, why we do so and how we treat this information. It also explains your rights in relation to the collection of personal information and how you can exercise those rights.

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