Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

There has been a welcome emphasis over the past number of weeks on the environment and what we need to do to protect it. One of the things we need to do is to introduce legal protections for the environment. An ecocide law would do that. A legal definition of "ecocide" has been proposed by the independent expert panel. We now need a head of state to formally propose an ecocide amendment to the Rome Statute. Will the Government take the lead on this issue and work with the panel to progress the definition of ecocide and its subsequent incorporation into the Rome Statute?

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