Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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184. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline in tabular form what steps for the preparation and proposal of new legislation in the Cabinet Handbook were adhered to, and not adhered to, with regard to the Environmental Protection Agency (Amendment) Bill 2023. [15268/23]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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The Oireachtas recently passed the Environment Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023 which was subsequently signed by the President on 10 March, 2023.

The legislation was developed on an emergency basis in line with the exceptional circumstance procedures set out in the Cabinet Handbook.