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

I move amendment No. 23:

In page 8, after line 38, to insert the following:

“Progress towards targets5. (1) The Minister shall in each year, beginning with the year 2016, request the relevant body to prepare a report setting out that body’s views on—

(a) progress towards achievement of—

(i) annual targets,

(ii) the interim target,

(iii) the 2050 target,

(b) whether the annual targets, the interim target or the 2050 target are likely to be achieved,

(c) any further effort which may be necessary to achieve annual targets, the interim target or the 2050 target.

(2) No later than the end of the second year following a year for which an annual target has been set (a “target year”), the Minister shall request the relevant body to prepare a report setting out that body’s views on—

(a) whether the annual target for the target year was met,

(b) whether the domestic effort target was met in that target year,

(c) the ways in which those targets were or were not met,

(d) the action taken by the Minister to reduce net emissions during that year.

(3) The Minister shall lay a response to the relevant body’s report under this section before the Houses of the Oireachtas as soon as reasonably practicable after they receive that body’s report.”.

The same arguments apply to this amendment.