Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It has been a very good process in that it was very useful to have received the expert opinions from right across the spectrum. Had I been writing it, I probably would have been more hardline on a number of issues. I would have wanted targets, etc. It is important that we can live with the report going to the Minister. Circumstances would be different had we written it ourselves. Deputy Stanley is quite right that the train has left the station and that climate legislation is urgent. Through the legislative process, we will have an opportunity to make a contribution on the various stages of the Bill. That will obviously be informed by many of the deliberations here over recent months. Deputy Humphreys said it is important that we give direction, assist or have some influence in the process. The report makes a decent attempt at doing that.