Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour) | Oireachtas source

This amendment proposes to set out definitions of baselines and baseline years in respect of greenhouse gas emissions with a view to more wide-ranging amendments in sections 3 and 4 of the Bill. I will reserve my principal observations on the more wide-ranging amendments until later in the debate. As I do not agree with the proposed large-scale amendments to section 3, I consider this amendment to be redundant. Setting out such definitions here is completely unnecessary as both legally binding EU and international instruments establish such matters in a far more comprehensive manner. Moreover, in Ireland the Environmental Protection Agency deals with such matters as part of the preparation of its greenhouse gas emissions projections. I ask the Deputy to withdraw her amendment on that basis.