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- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)
Clare Daly: It is still going on.
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)
Clare Daly: The response to everything we have raised in terms of projections and targets is that we do not need these things in Ireland because we are already the subject of EU targets. Of course, that is to be completely blind to the reality that, while we may be subject to those targets, we are also on target to miss them and be well off the radar in terms of achieving them in any meaningful way by...
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)
Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 34:In page 6, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following:“(e) specify the projected total national emissions for the period of the plan on the basis of all the policy measures specified in the plan.”.
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)
Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 47:In page 8, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: "(j) the principle of climate justice.".
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)
Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 50:In page 8, to delete lines 33 and 34 and substitute the following: "(10) A national mitigation plan shall be approved by a resolution in both Houses of the Oireachtas as soon may be after it is approved by the Government.".
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)
Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 63:In page 12, to delete lines 11 to 15 and substitute the following:“(2) There shall stand established, on the establishment day, a body which shall be known, in the Irish language, as An Chomhairle Chomhairleach um Athrú Aeráide or, in the English language, as the Climate Change Advisory Council (in this Act referred to as the “Advisory...
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)
Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 66:In page 12, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following:“(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or of any other enactment, the members of the Advisory Council shall be independent in the performance of their functions under this Act.”.
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)
Clare Daly: It has stopped now. Deputy Boyd Barrett was asking whose phone was ringing but it has magically stopped. I assure the House it was not mine.
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)
Clare Daly: I will be brief. The purpose of these amendments is to enshrine the independence of the advisory council into law. It is very much based on the statutory framework for the Fiscal Advisory Council. The amendment is modelled on a provision in the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014 and section 8(1) of the Fiscal Responsibility Act 2012. If it is sufficiently important to enshrine...
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)
Clare Daly: I am not sure why it is not grouped with these amendments if it is essentially the same issue.
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)
Clare Daly: Okay. Did the Minister of State move it now?
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)
Clare Daly: I cannot see it.
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)
Clare Daly: The Minister of State did not move an amendment.
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)
Clare Daly: If they are grouped, the Minister of State would be dealing with it.
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)
Clare Daly: The Minister of State will have to move it now. Can he not move it now while we are discussing them together?
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)
Clare Daly: Does the Minister of State intend to move it?
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)
Clare Daly: It would have helped matters if the Minister of State had moved the amendment. It is down for moving now.
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)
Clare Daly: It is. The Minister of State is supposed to move it in this batch of amendments. I accept what the Minister of State is saying, namely, it does have the same framework of wording as our amendment. If we had known that, it would have made a difference. I am glad the Minister of State seems to have taken the points on board. The appointment of some of the people to the council has also...
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)
Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 131:In page 17, line 25, to delete “30 days” and substitute “10 days”. Briefly, this is about shortening the timeframe for the publication of the advisory council's annual reports. We propose the amendment in the view that this is necessary in order to facilitate public debate and ensure transparency in the process. There should not be any...
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)
Clare Daly: The Minister of State said that we have to be realistic, which is true. In the real world, Ireland is not on track to reach its greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. We are committed to a non-emissions trading sectors reduction of 20% between 2005 and 2020. It is widely established that we are going to be well wide of the mark for this. It is reckoned that we will only achieve a...