Press Release: Report does not tell the whole story. Roche comments on European environment state and outlook report

The 'European environment: State and outlook 2005' report published on 29 November 2005 by the European Environment Agency portrayed Ireland as being at the bottom of the European environment league, a view which was immediately contested by the Irish Minister for the Environment, Dick Roche.

• Primary Source

European Environment Agency: State of Environment Reports: SOER No.1, 2005 http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/state_of_environment_report_2005_1

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