Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 2 October 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Business of Joint Committee

6:10 pm

Photo of Eamon RyanEamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We must also ask for a copy of the report on the update of the Project Ireland 2040 from the high-level senior officials group that the Secretary General said he would see if he could provide. He said that they would try to present that material to us as well.

We have an opportunity to open up this process in a healthy way. Recent Supreme Court or High Court decisions around access to information on Government climate papers will force the State, against precedent, to open up some of those documents. If the Departments tell us that they cannot supply information, we have legal precedent on our side now to say that they will provide open access to what is going on.

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