Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The 2015 Act is referred to and the 2000 Act was amended for the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015. Here, planning authorities are required to prepare a strategy but it also includes the requirement, under the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015, to produce and prepare climate action plans. Section 47(3) states, "A planning authority shall seek to ensure the coordination of the preparation of a strategy under subsection (1) with the preparation of a local authority climate action plan ..." which they are currently preparing, so that they can be done together.