New Health, Home and Your Environment Free Information and Advice Clinic – The Centre for Environmental Justice

Are harmful environmental issues impacting the health and safety of you, your home or community?

As the person experiencing an environmental harm, you are best placed to diagnose the issue.  

Pollution in the environment or climate-related events can have an impact on our health. Health impacts of environmental stressors include cardiovascular diseases, respiratory illnesses, and cancers. In contrast, living in a safe and healthy home and having access to green spaces contributes to our physical and mental wellbeing. 

Community Law & Mediation, your local community law centre, is running a free information and advice clinic on how to address environmental harms and protect biodiversity.   

This clinic is for your concerns about: 

  • The quality of the air you breathe inside your home and outdoors 
  • Water quality in your home  
  • Water pollution in your local area (rivers, lakes, groundwater, and the coast) 
  • Biodiversity loss in your local area and access to green space  
  • Illegal dumping  
  • The impacts of climate change affecting you and your community  

Our new Health, Home and Your Environment free information and advice clinic aims to empower you with the information needed to act for a just solution that ensures the health of you, your home, and your community.  


Book into the clinic by filling out this online booking form. 

(Ensure your place! – Please mention our new environmental clinic within the booking form)


Air and Water Quality 

Our clinic could be helpful if: 

  • Your local area has bad outdoor air quality from traffic, solid fuel burning, or industrial burning 
  • Your home has poor indoor air quality 
  • You have been advised not to drink your tap water without first boiling the water 
  • You are concerned that local groundwater, rivers, lakes, or coastal waters are polluted 
  • There is illegal dumping in your neighbourhood 

Energy Costs and Dampness

Our clinic could be helpful if: 

  • You are concerned about climate change  
  • There is biodiversity loss in your local area, and you want to protect nature.  
  • You want to ensure that your community has access to green space, and that such areas are protected. 
  • You have experienced the effects of climate change in the form of storms, flooding, erosion, or other damage to your home or property 

Climate and Biodiversity  

Our clinic could be helpful if: 

  • You are concerned about climate change  
  • There is biodiversity loss in your local area, and you want to protect nature.  
  • You want to ensure that your community has access to green space, and that such areas are protected. 
  • You have experienced the effects of climate change in the form of storms, flooding, erosion, or other damage to your home or property 

Book into the clinic by filling out this online booking form. 

(Ensure your place! – Please mention our new environmental clinic within the booking form)


If you would like to help us spread the word about this new clinic, you can download and share the flyer below, or share our social media posts! 

You can help us spread the word by sharing our LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Bluesky or Instagram posts.

A Call to Action: Have your say on Part 9 of the Planning and Development Bill 2023 (Judicial Review).

Part 9 of the Planning and Development Bill 2023 relates to proposed changes to the judicial review process, which ensures that statutory bodies such as An Bord Pleanála make decisions in accordance with the law. The process itself is not easy to engage in, and a judicial review application is only successful if there has been a breach of law or process.

If part 9 of the bill is passed in its current form, it will will make it more difficult and costly for citizens, community and environmental groups and residents’ associations to challenge planning decisions which affect their communities and the environment.

It will introduce a requirement that a list of the names and addresses of those who vote in favour of bringing judicial proceedings is submitted in court documents – this can only be designed to produce a chilling effect and scare local groups off potential challenges.  It will also restrict environmental NGOs from taking legal action unless they fulfil arbitrary preconditions, such as being a company with ten or more members. 

Community, environmental and residents’ groups play a vital role in helping make their neighbourhood a better place to live, and should be empowered hold the government to account when they make decisions which aren’t in accordance with the law. 

Are you concerned about the implications of part 9 of the Planning and Development Bill?

  • Below, you can find a useful email template in PDF and Word format that we have created for you to edit accordingly, to send on to the TDs in your constituency or the Minister for Housing. You can also download the template as a word document here.
  • If you have concerns about the bill which are not included in our template, please feel free to add in.
  • Having trouble finding your TDs? Visit here to find the contact details of your local TD

Book Free Legal Advice Clinic Online

Book a free legal advice clinic through our new, online form.

You can now book our free legal advice clinics through our website. Once you submit your form, we will be in touch within 48 hours to book you into the free legal advice clinic which applies to your query.

To fill out the form, please click whether you want to be directed to our Limerick service or our Head Office (for all other counties) below:

Book in Limerick

Book in Head Office (for all other counties)

Our free legal advice consultation service is open to everyone. We provide free legal advice in Ireland in the areas of employment, social welfare, housing, family, child law and environmental justice. General queries are also welcome. So if you are having problems accessing your social welfare entitlements, if you are experiencing problems in the workplace, or if you are afraid of losing your home, we are here to help.

To find out more information, please click here.