Seanad debates
Friday, 2 July 2021
Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage
9:30 am
Pauline O'Reilly (Green Party) | Oireachtas source
My issue here is around the language in amendment No. 30 where it speaks of being "consistent with the State’s highest possible ambition", which suggests this is written somewhere. The Bill is actually saying "by no later than"and therefore leaves room for that.
We did considerable work in the committee on changing the language to be consistent with the Paris Agreement. That is all in this Bill. The strength is already in the language and I believe this amendment makes the Bill weaker in some ways because it is referring to something but not really describing what the thing is.
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