Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Monday, 8 July 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht
Heads of Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed)
1:55 pm
Caít Keane (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I have one small question regarding the Aarhus Convention, which Ireland signed this year. I refer to a case taken by a Dublin engineer or something similar. In the context of the consultation on renewable energy and the target of 20% by 2020, how does Mr. Nix perceive the aforementioned case? Will it affect what we are doing here and, if so, how? It was not a ruling against Ireland but against the European Union and how the Union was interpreting the Aarhus Convention. The witnesses may not be familiar with this case but I have read about it and meant to follow it up. As Mr. James Nix has been very helpful in answering all the questions members have put, I thought it-----
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