Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 95:

In page 18, between lines 40 and 41, to insert the following: “(7A) The Advisory Council may issue a formal request to the Minister, asking him or her to exercise his or her powers to revise a carbon budget under this section, where the Council believe that a greater reduction in greenhouse gases has become necessary due to either of the factors specified in subsection (2).”.

This amendment concerns the advisory council. The concern is that the advisory council cannot trigger a revision of the carbon budget. However, I have other concerns about the advisory council, including its sub-committees and how the functions of carbon budgets might be transferred, so I will discuss that and come back to this more nuanced question of their powers on Report Stage.