Sandra McLellan (Cork East, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the Climate Bill will be ready for publication by the fourth quarter of 2012; the date on which in the fourth quarter of 2012 he will issue the heads of a Climate Bill to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht; if the Climate Bill will contain legally binding emission reduction targets for 2050 and 2020 and interim targets in the form of five year carbon budgets adopted by Dáil Éireann; if it ensure that these targets will be met domestically without buying offset credits overseas; if it will establish an independent climate change commission that advises Government and has the power to publish its own reports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47941/12]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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As set out in the programme for the development of climate policy and legislation which I published in January 2012 , the commitment to issue heads of a Climate Bill in the fourth quarter of 2012 to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht, and stakeholders, for their consideration, remains on schedule. While I am committed to an open and transparent policy and legislation development process, it would be inappropriate for me to engage on the possible provisions of the climate Bill in advance of the heads being finalised and approved by Government.