Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I had not spoken to amendment No. 596 so I will now, briefly. This is about matters to which planning authorities and the commission shall have regard. The amendment is to ensure that specifically includes carbon emissions. A point was made before that the language in this Bill should be up to date with the climate emergency we declared in 2019. On the wording, I made the point that "environment" is far too broad. I want a specific mention of climate targets written into the Bill so that they cannot be ignored. It is just too important to have any of these things as implicit and not explicitly named.