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Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: Can it be done?

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: Deputy Boyd Barrett has referred to "drift", which is a good word. This legislation was being worked on prior to 2011 and it is now 2015 and we are at this stage. I understand that there are complexities and many elements that need to be worked through. This certainly could be accelerated and we should be further advanced than we are. This amendment is aimed at ensuring that we take the...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: It should be eminently possible to come up with a solution. I believe Dáil Éireann should have a role in this. I understand the Minister when he says it needs to be submitted to the Government for approval, but I believe the legislation could and should contain a provision that the Government should put the matter before the Dáil for debate. I agree with Deputy Boyd Barrett...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I move amendment No. 14:In page 6, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following:“(a) include agreed targets of reductions in CO2emissions through 2050,”. It is getting to feel like Groundhog Day here. This amendment goes to the nub of our discussion. If we do not have targets, we are simply talking about aspirations. Let us assume I want to travel from here to...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I contend that the manner in which it has been done is different from the specific values that need to be set in order to monitor the achievement or non-achievement of targets.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: Exactly.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: Is the Minister happy that monitoring is conducted in a five year cycle?

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I agree with that proposal.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I wish to make the same argument. I believe that the plan, in its current form, does not have and will not have the facility for ongoing monitoring of the rate of achievement or non-achievement of targets that we set ourselves, and not those targets imposed by Europe. Ongoing monitoring will be impossible without such checkpoints.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: We will not save agriculture or any other industry by having targets. It is not about targets but about checkpoints, measurements and refinements to plans. I see the proposals as safeguarding agriculture and every essential industry we have because we will need refinements and periodic checks. We cannot wait until the end of a five year period or 2020 before somebody hits us with a stick...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I move amendment No. 16:In page 6, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following:“(e) specify the projected level of emissions once the policy measures outlined are implemented.”.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I do not propose to go back over our earlier discussion again but will be pressing amendment No. 20 when we reach it.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I move amendment No. 20:In page 8, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following:“(j) the principle of climate justice.”.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I move amendment No. 27:In page 12, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following:“(3) The National Expert Advisory Council shall be independent in the performance of its functions.”. I was going to call a vote on this matter, but in view of the Minister's commitment to look at it before Report Stage, I will withdraw the amendment.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I move amendment No. 29:In page 12, to delete lines 19 and 20 and substitute the following: “(b) not more than 5 ordinary members who shall be independent of the state or stakeholder interests.”. This amendment relates to the five ordinary members who shall be independent of the State. In view of the Minister's commitment, I will withdraw this amendment, although subject to...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I wish to make a comment on that decision. There was nothing here which would have generated an additional charge on the Exchequer. We are talking about people who are already working in the public service and about them having an additional responsibility. I would regard that decision as a lazy excuse for turning down potentially good amendments.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: International Renewable Energy Agency: Motion (28 May 2015)

Michael Colreavy: We support the proposal put forward by the Minister of State. It makes sense that we should seek to learn from the experience and research of other nations as they develop renewable energy systems. We must keep a careful watch, however, to ensure IRENA does not change from an information-sharing body into one which would seek to be a decision-making entity in terms of determining which...

Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2015)

Michael Colreavy: Aer Lingus is to remain under IAG control for seven years, therefore the agreement the Government has reached with IAG is a stay of execution. IAG and Willie Walsh are interested in the Heathrow slots. They are not concerned with the shamrock on the tail wing or the future of Cork, Shannon or Dublin airports. As it becomes more unlikely that a third Heathrow runway will go ahead, the...

Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2015)

Michael Colreavy: Perhaps the reason the Chamber is half empty is other Members share my frustration. How many hours will we spend debating this issue today?

Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2015)

Michael Colreavy: Yet we were told by the penultimate speaker that the deal had been signed off on by the Minister of State, Deputy Gerald Nash, last night. We are, therefore, spending seven hours debating something that was agreed last night when hands were shook - it was deal done. I want to ask the Minister one question before I continue my contribution. Can I or anybody else on these benches say...