Committee on Environment, Transport, Culture and the Gaeltacht to invite Minister Hogan to discuss climate change legislation

Committee Chairman Ciarán Lynch, TD said: “Last week, the Minister announced that he would engage in a process of further study, public consultation and the promotion of carbon emissions mitigation schemes before any climate change legislation is introduced. This would suggest that a climate change bill is unlikely in the near future.

The Programme for Government has clearly committed us to bringing in climate change legislation and the Committee will be interested in hearing from the Minister how he sees his recent announcement on climate change policy fitting in with that commitment.

The Minister’s decision has also been criticised by a number of environmental groups which insist that climate change legislation is necessary to underpin any efforts to cut carbon emissions and meet climate change targets.

We’re looking forward to meeting with the Minister so that he can outline in detail his climate change policy, run through his future plans for climate change legislation that would allow Ireland to meeting its 2020 targets and shed light on his timetable for that legislation.”

For further information please contact:

Ciaran Brennan,
Houses of the Oireachtas,
Communications Unit,
Leinster House,
Dublin 2

P: +3531 618 3903
M: 086-0496518
F: +3531 618 4551

Committee Membership

Deputies:

Ciarán Lynch, Labour Party (Chairman)
Noel Coonan, Fine Gael (Vice-Chairman)
James Bannon, Fine Gael
Paudie Coffey, Fine Gael
Terence Flanagan, Fine Gael
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy, Fine Gael
Tony McLoughlin, Fine Gael
Patrick O’Donovan, Fine Gael
Brian Walsh, Fine Gael
Kevin Humphreys, Labour Party
Gerald Nash, Labour Party
Seán Kenny, Labour Party
Robert Troy, Fianna Fáil
Timmy Dooley, Fianna Fáil
Niall Collins, Fianna Fáil
Sandra McLellan, Sinn Féin
Dessie Ellis, Sinn Féin
Brian Stanley, Sinn Féin
Clare Daly, Socialist Party
Catherine Murphy, Independent
Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan, Independent