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Written submission to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement.
(A. Hough, 2019-07-04)
This submission presents a summary of the research carried out for the report “Brexit, The Good Friday/Belfast Agreement and the Environment: Issues arising and possible solutions” which explored the impact of Brexit on ...
Opening statement to the Joint Committee on Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement.
(A. Hough, 2019-07-04)
I am a barrister and law lecturer, based in Athlone Institute of Technology. I was commissioned by
the Environmental Pillar and NIEL (Northern Ireland Environment Link) to produce an independent
report on the role of the ...
Brexit, the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement and the environment: issues arising and possible solutions.
(Environmental Pillar/Northern Ireland Environment Link, 2019-04)
This report sets out to examine cross-border environmental co-operation and joint action on the environment facilitated by the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement, and what role if any the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement will have ...
Changes to the environmental impact regime in Ireland.
(Inshore Ireland, 2016)
The Amending EIA Directive 2014/521/EU will take effect on May 16 2017. It will substantially change how Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is conducted in Ireland. This article outlines some of the changes it will make ...
Coming down the tracks: anticipated changes to the environmental impact assessment regime as a result of the Directive 2014/52/EU and the Aarhus Convention
(Lawtext Publishing, 2016-10)
This paper outlines the main changes introduced by the amending Environmental Impact Assessment Directive 2014/52/EU, and considers what these changes will mean for operators on the ground in Ireland and England when the ...
The potential of the Good Friday Agreement post-Brexit environmental governance on the island of Ireland.
(IRLII, 2019)
This article presents a summary of research report carried out for the Environmental Pillar
and Northern Ireland Environmental Link (NIEL), examining cross-border environmental co-operation
and joint action on the ...
Submission to the Public Consultation on General Scheme of the House and Planning and Development Bill 2019.
(A. Hough, 2020-01-27)
The Aarhus Convention (UNECE, 1998) arose out of Principle 10 (UNEP) of the Rio Declaration 1992 (UN,
1992), which embodies a key principle of international environmental law, that environmental decisions
are best handled ...
The public participation principle: effective implementation of Aarhus participation rights by the European Union Legal Framework.
(Lawtext Publishing, 2017)
This paper considers the principle of Public Participation
as envisaged by the Aarhus Convention. It addresses the
academic debate regarding the true nature of public
participation as a civil and political right and the ...
UN legal research on plastics: plastic bags, single use plastics. Country Report: Ireland.
(EMLA, 2018-04-21)
UN Environment is seeking to create three targeted reports to provide a global overview of the progress of countries in passing laws and regulations that limit the manufacture, import, sale, use and disposal of selected ...