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

I move amendment No. 35:

In page 17, line 29, to delete “18 months” and substitute “6 months”.

The expert advisory council is supposed to conduct a review every 18 months to monitor progress in meeting objectives and securing the transition to a low carbon economy. The amendment proposes that 18 months after its establishment is too long a period before that review would be conducted and it proposes that the period should be six months instead.

Like many of the amendments we have proposed the issue is one of moving things along faster than is being proposed in the Government's legislation. The logic of the amendment is fairly self-evident.