Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

COP 28 will reinforce the existential crisis we face if we do not take some drastic action very quickly. When the Taoiseach and I served in the Department of enterprise, there was an agreement to implement non-financial reporting for large companies and listed SMEs. That is for companies to annually say what they are doing with regard to reducing their carbon emissions. The implementation of that has been deferred by one year already. I learned recently that there are plans to defer it by a further two years in certain areas. I do not expect the Taoiseach to have the answers to hand, but I ask him to use his good offices to find out exactly what is happening. Many companies are ahead of the curve on this already and are doing really good things to reduce their carbon emissions. If we are deferring certain requirements by a further two years, that is a retrograde step. I ask the Taoiseach to look into the matter further.

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