Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

The motion on the carbon budgets is going through without debate. There should be a debate on that. The entire discussion about the recommendations was conducted in private and there was no opportunity for the committee to input into the body of that report. We were not given an opportunity to do so, which I believe is wrong. There was no time for a minority report to be developed by committee members if they so wished. There are concerns that the actual body of the report does not reflect the very stark evidence-----

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