Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We have clarification. The guidelines were issued last Friday. They will be made public within a month. We may have to wait another month to suit the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, presumably. A direction has also been issued to all the local authorities to prepare an action plan. Is that what the Minister of State said? I do not have the reply in front of me. Let us be very clear now because I have four pages of background here and the levels of frustration are quite high. The Minister of State still has not answered me. What was the delay for two years? Have the 31 local authorities now submitted their decarbonisation plans? Also a very quick history lesson, as the Minister of State read out, Climate Action Plan 2019 was about each local authority identifying a decarbonisation zone. That was to be for the end of 2019. The 2020 election intervened. I will resume on my second minute.

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