Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 22:

In page 8, to delete lines 33 and 34 and substitute the following:“(10) A national mitigation plan shall be approved by a resolution in both Houses of the Oireachtas as soon may be after it is approved by the Government.”.

In this amendment Deputy Murphy proposed that the national mitigation plan would be approved not only by the Dáil but by the Seanad as well. I made the argument that we want the national mitigation plan to be front and centre of public debate. We want all the public representatives at national level to be part of the discussion to advance the campaign to deal with climate change, and therefore it is logical that the Seanad would be included in signing off on it.