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Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: Yes. I asked what the distinct characteristics of biogenic methane mean. Will tools be developed to account for that? In practical terms, what does that mean and what will it mean?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: Amendments Nos. 132 and 137 try to achieve the same thing and address the same issue relating to accountability to the Houses of the Oireachtas, as well as addressing the issue, which may come to fruition, of the Houses of the Oireachtas not supporting a budget but the Minister being able to come back with the exact same budget. We want to rule out the option of coming back with an unrevised...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: I am speaking to amendments Nos. 132 and 137.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: I echo those points. It is really important that the Minister of State hears the concerns being outlined here. This legislation does two big things. It sets ambitious interim targets and 2050 targets and sets out a framework for making a plan to achieve those targets. For me, the framework is about whose voices are heard, who has a place at the table and the level of transparency and...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: I wish to return to the suggestion that it is an either-or situation. I echo the point that we have to follow the science. There are already huge provisions in the Bill that acknowledge the range of perspectives and voices that have to be heard. This is built into it. What is very important is the process by which we come to agree the budgets and various elements of the plan, whose voices...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: I move amendment No. 130: In page 16, line 9, to delete ", if appropriate".

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: I move amendment No. 132: In page 16, to delete lines 13 to 16.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: I move amendment No. 136: In page 16, line 24, after "Oireachtas" to insert "for approval".

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: I move amendment No. 137: In page 16, lines 24 to 34, to delete all words from and including "and" in line 24 down to and including line 34 and substitute the following: "(12) The carbon budget approved by the Oireachtas shall be binding as far as is practicable on the State and all Public Authorities within the State for the budget period to which it relates.".

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: I move amendment No. 139: In page 16, line 32, to delete "A Minister of the Government shall, in so far as practicable, perform" and substitute "The Government and a Minister of the Government shall, in so far as practicable perform its or".

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: I move amendment No. 183: In page 19, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “(c) by the substitution of the following subsectionfor subsection (3): “(3) (a) The chairperson and ordinary members (other than the ordinary members to who subsection (2) applies)of the Advisory Council shall be appointed by the President— (i) on the advice of the...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: Yes. I will move those amendments and we can deal with them one by one then.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: We know from the CCAC's minutes and agenda for May that it sought legal advice on aspects of the legislation we are now discussing. What does that legal advice relate to? We know from the CCAC minutes on 15 April that it was agreed legal advice would be sought to provide clarity on some aspects of the amendment Bill and to assist the council in approaching its work. At pre-legislative...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: My understanding is that the Department is due to brief the CCAC about its concerns. It would be helpful to us, as legislators, if in this session or later ones, or before Report Stage, we had an opportunity to consider the CCAC's concerns in order that they might be either ruled in or out or, at the very least, considered in the context of the legislation we are discussing.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: This is a formula that is accepted elsewhere in Government. The Minister of State might consider aspects of it or all of it before Report Stage.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: No. I will withdraw it with leave to reintroduce it on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: I move amendment No. 184: In page 19, line 15, to delete “Minister” and substitute “President”. I will do the same with this amendment: withdraw it with leave to reintroduce it on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: I move amendment No. 186: In page 19, line 31, to delete “climate,” and substitute the following: “climate; (xi) social justice, (xii) social policy, (xiii) social inclusion;”. I will withdraw the amendment with leave to reintroduce it on Report Stage. I think the Minister of State can see what we are trying to do with it. Maybe he will give it some...