Caít Keane (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On the issue of energy not being incorporated into COP21, of course, it was. If one reads the climate change legislation, one will see every sector is charged with bringing forward a report, including the Minister's Department. Every sector must outline its targets in terms of that legislation.If we are asking for duplication of energy regulation, it is provided for in climate change targets that the relevant energy Department has to bring forward proposals and recommendations on how it is going to reach the target. It is incorporated in the climate change Bill.

The purpose of this Bill is to introduce a number of changes to existing legislation, as well as incorporating new legislation. I am amused that it refers to the Intoxicating Liquor Act 1946, which provided for the issuing of licences for certain premises in certain bogs. I see in the explanatory memorandum that a licence was never granted for such a premises and that provision was never used. I suppose the last place one would need somebody to be intoxicated would be on a bog, as he or she might fall in.