Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is essential that poorer countries be enabled to work with better-off countries to address the issue of reducing carbon emissions. Inserting it into the Bill would place a legislative requirement on the Government to ensure climate justice was a key part of our negotiating stance in the Minister's engagement with international partners. He should enshrine it in legislation. He has not given us a strong enough reason as to why that should not be the case.

That many other countries have not done so does not mean we cannot do so. The Minister has not outlined a particular reason we should not actually take the lead in this regard. He should reconsider this and, at the very least, indicate that he will do as proposed between now and the next Stage of the Bill.