Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Although it was not what prompted the question, the Minister of State will have heard from the Climate Change Advisory Council yesterday in regard to the electricity sector and the reports on the challenge of meeting our targets. We had a roundtable last week involving members of the Oireachtas climate committee and some of those in the offshore wind sector. Both of those examples paint a similar picture of ambition but a failure to implement at pace and scale the type of change that is required. We talk about a lost decade in terms of renewables between 2010 and 2020. In effect, we had a lost year last year and we cannot afford lost days, never mind lost years, in the roll-out of renewables. One of the issues raised by the CCAC was the need to progress the transposition of the revised renewable energy directive. When will the Government do that?

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