Rebecca Moynihan (Labour) | Oireachtas source

That is disappointing, when taken in conjunction with the climate justice amendment we tried to insert. Those amendments are not intended to be the meat of the Bill but to set the parameters within which we will deliver the targets in the Bill. I am disappointed to hear the Minister say this is not a manifesto for everything we want to include in it and that this is a way of ensuring we hit our targets as part of the sustainable development goals. They do not work in isolation, but in conjunction with one another. They are meant to complement one another.

The intention of this is not to put in that we are writing a party political manifesto or a manifesto for Ireland. It is intended to set the principles and objectives which will frame the actions taken in the Bill. That is fundamentally important. I am disappointed the Minister is not accepting this or the other amendments in which we are trying to set the parameters for the principles and objectives from which the action flows. That is fundamentally putting climate justice, just transition and the sustainable development goals, which work together and complement one another, with one another. It is disappointing that those key amendments are not being accepted.