Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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46. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason for the three-year delay in delivering an up-to-date long-term climate strategy, specifying how the Government aims to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, as required under domestic and EU climate law; when he expects to be in a position to deliver this plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20355/23]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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Ireland’s current Long-term Strategy on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions was approved by Government on Tuesday, 25 April 2023 and is available on gov.ie

While a comprehensive draft was prepared in 2019, publication was deferred in order to reflect the enhanced ambition brought about by the 2020 Programme for Government. That enhanced ambition includes:

• a legally binding national 2050 climate neutrality target;
• provision for a 51% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2030 compared to 2018 levels;
• national Carbon Budgets and Sectoral Emissions Ceilings and an updated Climate Action Plan published in December 2022, which sets out the policies, measures, and actions to achieve our climate targets.