Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We are working to have Report Stage of the Bill taken before the recess and there is a will to do so. I appreciate that the Minister has acknowledged plainly - he could not do otherwise - that we will not just miss the 2020 targets but also the 2030 targets. The planet will probably have exploded by 2050. While there is honesty in the Minister's admission, there is no consequential impact on policy.

Whether it is the Minister's office or somewhere else, somebody must start calling a halt to this. One Department is not going to address this. Climate impact and emissions are not a side issue and they should be an integral part of every Department's briefing. Unless there is a radical departure where this is a factor in the Department's dealings with transport, agriculture, planning and all the others, we will be in an even worse position than the Minister has acknowledged. That multidepartmental approach must be introduced as what the Minister has admitted is frightening.

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