Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 September 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications

1:30 pm

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

I thank Deputy Bruton. It is not easy to get your head around this because it is so complex. It is a wicked problem in the first place and while, in many cases, the solutions are very beneficial and are at the centre of an industrial revolution, they are in many sectors and they are technical, and this is difficult. Keeping on track of how we are doing is the job of the EPA. Its annual update, the most recent of which was published earlier in the summer, is critical. It ties our reporting system to the UN reporting rules. Ultimately, we have to think about this within the Paris legal agreement, the UNFCCC-----

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