Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats)

The Government is going backwards when it comes to climate action. The EPA report today states that even if every one of the Government's plans and policies was implemented, this would only meet 23% of our emissions target reductions. We are meant to be meeting 51%. It is clear that the Government is not doing enough. The Government may think it is doing a good job on climate and it may spin to the media that it is doing a good job. However, the science and the evidence say the absolute opposite. What will is the Government going to do to ensure that we meet the 2030 targets? Will it urgently revise the climate action plan, as the Social Democrats asked it to do during the negotiations to form a Government, in order to meet our full 51% commitment?

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