Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Every day we have new evidence of climate change and the detrimental effect it has on our environment and the rejection of all of this evidence by the new US Administration will clearly make the situation worse. The programme for Government refers to climate change being the global challenge of our generation. I appreciate that the Minister had an accident and I wish him well, but this goes before his cycling incident. The fact is the Government has not fulfilled the programme for Government commitment to extensive public consultation to incorporate the land use, infrastructural and economic issues in a long-term transition to a new low-carbon future. Almost a year after the Government was elected, there is still no sign of this. Can the Taoiseach tell us when we will see measures put in place? Can we also get some sense of when the national low-carbon transition and mitigation plan will be published? It was to be published within six months of the new Government being formed. That has not happened. Then there is the big concern that we will not meet our 2020 emission targets or 2030 emission targets. Can the Taoiseach update the Dáil on what is happening to all of these really important and critical issues?

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