Dáil debates

Wednesday, 10 July 2019

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed)

Climate Action Plan

1:50 pm

Photo of Leo VaradkarLeo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On Deputy Haughey's question about reaching carbon neutrality by 2050, Ireland and I supported it at the EU summit but a number of countries - the V4 countries - could not sign up to that. They worked together on that, largely because they wanted to see a roadmap as to how it could be achieved, and they were not willing to accept the view that carbon sequestration and carbon storage technologies will be developed in adequate time, although we will continue to press them on it.

On Deputy Howlin's questions about how we hold other governments and bodies to account to implement the plan-----

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