Dáil debates

Thursday, 20 May 2021

Questions on Promised Legislation

 

1:00 pm

Photo of Eamon RyanEamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I absolutely agree. I look forward to reading that report.

I agree we must be more ambitious for a variety of reasons. First, we are close to the limit in terms of what we can manage under the existing system - landfill, incineration or other mechanisms. We must dramatically reduce the amount of waste and increase the amount of recycling.

When Mr. John Kerry spoke at the Dublin Climate Dialogues yesterday, he reiterated a point we are hearing increasingly, which is that we are not doing enough on climate globally. We are not meeting the scale of the challenge and we must radically increase ambition. That will come from the climate Bill but it will also come from the waste action plan. This job is a job where one takes a baton from a predecessor and then one manages it and passes it on. I was fortunate in this instance to take the baton from Deputy Bruton with the waste action plan in train. It was a good approach. It worked with the multiplicity of stakeholders. Industry has bought in. They will have a huge responsibility. We have that plan. We have the 200 actions in it. It is a matter of delivering those. I agree with the Deputy. I will look to put further ambition in if the Deputy's report indicates where that is possible.

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