NUI Galway law lecturer appointed to EPA committee

Dr Rónán Kennedy of NUI Galway’s School of Law has been appointed to the advisory committee of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The role involves making recommendations to the EPA on topics, including staffing, service provision, standards and guidelines, and research and work programmes.

The committee can also make recommendations to the Minister for Community, Climate Action, and Environment on the functions, financing, and activities of the Agency.

Mr Kennedy was appointed to the committee for a three-year term.

Professor Donncha O’Connell, head of the School of Law, said: “The appointment of Dr Kennedy to this critically important Committee of the EPA speaks highly of his established expertise as an environmental lawyer and is a very well-deserved recognition of the contribution that he makes as an academic of the highest probity.

“It is extremely gratifying to see another member of the School of Law associated with a public body, building upon the connections already established by others with state bodies such as the Law Reform Commission and the Irish Human Rights & Equality Commission.”