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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)
Hildegarde Naughton: In case there is any misunderstanding of the fourfold increase, the proposal is to bring it to €80 by 2030, and not 2020. There is a perception and a narrative that a fourfold increase to €80 is to happen by 2020. That is not the case. The advice of the Climate Change Advisory Council was that it be set at €80 by 2030 but some people are confused.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)
Hildegarde Naughton: I note the Deputy's suggestion for July as the date for a review to be completed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)
Hildegarde Naughton: If Senator Devine wants to speak, she should indicate and I will let her in. I ask her not to interrupt. We have conducted ourselves very well so far and I do not want this to unravel on a small piece of our very important work.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)
Hildegarde Naughton: Deputy Smith raised the issue of decoupling the issue of fuel poverty. While she is making her contribution, perhaps we could assist her in some shape or form. I note that Deputy Sherlock is offering.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)
Hildegarde Naughton: We could work that out. Perhaps we could make an additional new recommendation. I am in the hands of members on this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)
Hildegarde Naughton: The final speaker who has indicated is Deputy Munster. I ask her to be brief. We will adjourn if we need to for ten minutes to try to come to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)
Hildegarde Naughton: I will call Deputy Stanley and then Senator Devine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)
Hildegarde Naughton: I do not mind an interjection if it is a factual check, as long as it is brief and not disruptive.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)
Hildegarde Naughton: Let the Senator continue her contribution.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)
Hildegarde Naughton: Please let the Senator finish.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)
Hildegarde Naughton: Are members agreeable to a suspension of the sitting for 15 minutes?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)
Hildegarde Naughton: We will have three votes straight away. Rather than waiting for the bells every time, we might just ring the bells first. The first amendment is on the Sinn Féin amendment to delete the amendment. It proposes that all references to carbon tax increase be deleted from the document and that a single recommendation be made in chapter 6 that no increase in carbon tax be made. After...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)
Hildegarde Naughton: There is the Sinn Féin amendment to delete all references to carbon tax. The next amendment is from Deputy Bríd Smith. Did she want to decouple this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)
Hildegarde Naughton: I understand that she refers to the cross-party amendment: The Government should, prior to the introduction of any increase in carbon taxation, examine the impacts on low-income families and on the basis of these findings, introduce specific policy measures to assist those who may not be in a position to immediately transition from fossil fuels, including the potential use of social...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)
Hildegarde Naughton: Does the Deputy want to reinsert it into the report separately?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)
Hildegarde Naughton: The Deputy does not want it in this cross-party amendment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)
Hildegarde Naughton: It is No. 28 on this document. The Deputy wants this as a stand-alone recommendation. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)
Hildegarde Naughton: Yes. After that, we will go to the cross-party amendment. We will have to see how the votes go.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)
Hildegarde Naughton: Deputy Bríd Smith wants that to be a stand-alone recommendation. I do not want to speak for the Deputy, but I believe that is what she wants.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)
Hildegarde Naughton: That is the nuance involved here. It would require another vote.