Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate the Minister's goodwill, but the newspaper is telling us that Galway will not balance its budget next year. The report from Galway County Council is telling us it has the mitigation plan in place but it has no resources. I cannot help but think that this is a huge doubling-up of levels of bureaucracy now that we have regional offices as well. I gather they do good work in collecting data but one wonders why we needed that when we should have just resourced the local authority which is crying out for resources, because it has the plan and everything else.

On the amendment to the 2015 Act, perhaps the Minister will clarify what his response is to the quashing of the National Mitigation Plan by the Supreme Court. Will he be bringing forward another such plan as a matter of urgency?

It is not part of my question but now that the Minister has mentioned the amendment of the 2015 Act I will ask where is the mitigation plan that has been quashed. What assessment has been done of the resources needed on the ground to make climate action a reality?

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