Paudie Coffey (Waterford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The proposed amendment seeks to ensure that Ministers responsible for sectoral mitigation measures cannot revise downward any mitigation targets contained in a national mitigation plan. This, unfortunately, is to misunderstand the nature of the national mitigation plan, which is designed to specify how greenhouse gas emission reductions are to be achieved and not the quantum of reductions to be achieved. The latter is set as a result of negotiations at an EU level. Accordingly, this amendment is considered redundant and I cannot support it.

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