Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

They have been completed and sent out to all of the 31 local authorities. Is that what I am to understand? There has been no fanfare at this point and nobody knows about it except the local authority management. Is that correct? However, everybody will know about it in a month's time. I welcome that they have finally been published because without them we cannot have a local climate action plan or an implementation plan. The Minister of State took exception to Deputy Bríd Smith's comment earlier. I identify with her, but not in any personal way. I do not think she meant it personally. The lack of urgency about climate action is startling. The guidelines that have now been issued have taken forever. On the decarbonisation zones the Minister of State referred to so proudly back in February 2021, two years ago to be precise, 29 of 31 local authorities have published their decarbonisation zones and nothing has happened since. Will the Minister of State comment on that?

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