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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-12-04/11/
4 Dec 2018 -
microgeneration, it will play a part in building a wide portfolio of energy sources and we wish speedy passage of Bills...The Minister needs to be pro-active and get those Bills, from whatever party they come, passed and he...The climate action fund of at least €500 million was announced....amount is minimal compared to what people already contribute to renewable energy on their electricity bill...Climate change has often been described as thinking globally and acting locally.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2015-01-23/4/
23 Jan 2015 -
change Bill....action and low-carbon development Bill enacted....Such language is not in the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015, which is extremely important...Action and Low Carbon Development Bill and place it on the Statute Book to be built on for decades to...and low carbon development Bill.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Communications, Climate Action And Environment
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_communications_climate_action_and_environment/2019-11-26/5/
26 Nov 2019 -
it today as part of its scrutiny of the Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill...These are also core objectives of the climate action plan....It is important for the committee to consider whether the Bill, as drafted, will achieve the outcomes...The proposals set out in this Bill will involve a direct and ongoing cost to the Exchequer in relation...This is a short summary of some of the key issues to which the Bill gives rise.
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Parliamentary Question
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2018-10-09/423/#pq_423
Tue, 9 Oct 2018 -
Deputy Shane Cassells asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status...of the geothermal energy development Bill; when it is likely to be advanced further; the reasons for...the delay in advancing this Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40759/18]
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2010-10-06/3/
6 Oct 2010 -
I introduced No. 13 on the Order Paper, the Climate Protection Bill, three years ago this week....I understand the Cabinet committee on climate change and energy security was due to sit at 2.30 p.m....I will call a vote on my Bill tomorrow if I do not receive a satisfactory answer today.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2010-11-03/9/
3 Nov 2010 -
In terms of climate change, I am pessimistic regarding the Cancun climate change conference, as was probably...We have an all-party report that incorporates a Bill....that committee, Deputy Barrett, is present and the rapporteur on the report and the drafter of the Bill
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Debate: Joint Committee On Environment, Culture And The Gaeltacht
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_environment_culture_and_the_gaeltacht/2012-07-17/4/
17 Jul 2012 -
impression that the prevailing view is that we need to sort out the economic mess before we address climate...Members are concerned that the publication of the heads of the climate change Bill will be delayed....A second objective of the joint committee is to ensure the Bill meets certain criteria.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Environment, Culture And The Gaeltacht
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_environment_culture_and_the_gaeltacht/2013-07-12/4/
12 Jul 2013 -
However, I get a sense the Bill is scared of public participation....Climate change could be one of those areas that could develop the committee system to interact with the...One weakness of the Bill is that any dissenting opinion on the Government’s policy will not be in the...It is the opposite in the United Kingdom where in 2011 the climate committee published its third national
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-07-04/15/
4 Jul 2019 -
Deputy Richard Bruton The recently published climate action plan sets an ambitious target of 500,000...Savings on electricity bills from using less energy will help to fund repayments while homes will be...mortgages; an assessment of the potential for energy suppliers to pilot a pay-as-you-save mechanism and on-bill...The climate action plan commits to reviewing and redesigning these grant schemes to ensure alignment
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-03-04/5/
4 Mar 2021 -
lives as we adapt to cleaner and more efficient technologies and transport methods in the fight against climate...technologies and making them safe, we can become a leader in using innovation, not only to meet our climate...Climate change will not be reversed with one Bill or with one sector meeting its goals....I hope it will ultimately see us become not only a leader in climate action but also, as an international...I commend the Bill to the House.
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Parliamentary Question
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2014-05-01/136/#pq_136
Thu, 1 May 2014 -
The National Policy Position on climate action and low-carbon development, which I announced on 23 April...Position also sets out a number of key issues for consideration in the ongoing evolution of national climate...The General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development Bill, which I also announced on 23
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-06-28/13/
28 Jun 2021 -
Senator Alice-Mary Higgins This amendment is effectively around trying to copper-fasten the climate...My concern relates to the climate aspects, specifically those in section 15 of the Climate Action and...Of course, that will now become, we hope, strengthened in the climate Bill in the future....I am effectively adding climate obligations alongside some of our heritage obligations regarding Natura...A six-month period will be 10% of any climate budget, for example.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2018-11-27/33/
27 Nov 2018 -
Deputy Maurice Quinlivan I commend my colleague Deputy Brian Stanley on introducing this Bill on microgeneration...I am at a loss to understand how anyone would not support the Bill....Fine Gael can add climate change to the policy areas of health, housing, childcare, broadband and insurance...I commend again my colleague Deputy Stanley on bringing forward this important Bill....parties in the Dáil, which want to chart a different and more ambitious course in our fight against climate
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-12-02/11/
2 Dec 2020 -
presented the European Green Deal setting out an ambitious pathway towards making Europe the first climate-neutral...use the opportunity to the fullest to strengthen our commitment to proposed measures to tackle the climate...While Ireland has been described as a laggard in terms of climate action, we do have a proud record of...Indeed, Ireland faces one of the biggest challenges in responding to calls for greater climate action...We are laying the foundations for this in our Marine Planning and Development Management Bill, the necessary
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-06-16/22/
16 Jun 2021 -
Deputy Holly Cairns A just transition is vital to climate action....reason someone would oppose a clearer definition of a fair transition in the legislation, not to mind a Bill...There is a constant and false narrative around farming and climate change....are the ones that are most scared of climate action....Government to reconsider and ensure a clear definition of a just and fair transition is added to the Bill
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2005-02-16/3/
16 Feb 2005 -
Dardis Regarding No. 15, the Civil Partnership Bill, it is unusual for a Bill to get to this stage in...The outcome of the vote would be a different matter from the consideration of the substance of the Bill...at the end of that debate whether the Bill should proceed further....It is unusual for a Private Members' Bill to get to this point or to have it considered fully....There is a growing awareness worldwide of how misuse of the environment can change the climate.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2007-10-18/3/
18 Oct 2007 -
There is a civil partnership Bill, a climate change Bill and another Bill from the Independents, all...What has happened to the auctioneering Bill?...I gather the Bill has been drafted and is ready but there is, and there remains, a very strong auctioneering...I also want an assurance that it will be a Seanad Bill.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-07-05/10/
5 Jul 2018 -
Warfield I want to put on the record of the House my disbelief that last night Ireland passed into law a Bill...that actually endangers nature and the wildlife of this island, a Bill that is anything but a Heritage...Bill....Deputy Leo Varadkar, goes to the European Parliament and tells of how Ireland's action on tackling climate...It was not her Bill, she did not draft it and she had no obligation to pursue it.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-06-25/4/
25 Jun 2021 -
Senator Mary Seery Kearney I very much support the Bill and everything it contains....It is time Ireland was no longer a laggard and that we become leaders in climate action, in the decisions...The strategy in the Bill brings together all the key players in the country and obliges them to take...The Bill coming into law will further accelerate their plans....Depending on what demographic of society one is in, I am struck by how relevant climate action is to
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2010-11-04/7/
4 Nov 2010 -
It is clear the climate is changing and the real question is what is causing it....shows a world summit on climate change taking place....It is absolutely crucial that this proposed climate change Bill be passed....Personally, I consider climate change to be a much more serious problem....It will be a huge lost opportunity if the climate change Bill is not brought before the House as soon
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Debate: Joint Committee On European Scrutiny
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_european_scrutiny/2011-01-13/4/
13 Jan 2011 -
Climate change was addressed in the Food Harvest 2020 report....The Climate Change Response Bill 2010 is being discussed elsewhere in the Oireachtas today....While the Bill sets broad targets, it does not get into the details of how these targets will be reflected...To address it, the Bill provides for sectoral studies and impact assessments, which presumably, will...Addressing climate change is a challenge.
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Parliamentary Question
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2012-07-18/230/#pq_230
Wed, 18 Jul 2012 -
Community and Local Government if he is still committed to the time frame outlined in his roadmap for climate...policy, including the publication of heads of a climate Bill in 2012; the progress made to date on his
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2011-01-13/11/
13 Jan 2011 -
The Climate Change Response Bill is weaker than several of us would have liked....The Climate Change Response Bill is just as important and a good reason for the Government to stay in...With the help of several lobby groups, she developed a climate change Bill which was introduced in the...introduction of the Bill....Why not take the same philosophical position with regard to climate change?
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Debate: Joint Committee On Climate Change And Energy Security — Joint Committee On Foreign Affairs
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_climate_change_and_energy_security_—_joint_committee_on_foreign_affairs/2009-11-25/3/
25 Nov 2009 -
Climate change is a threat to the survival of all of us....it acknowledged the grave threat posed by climate change and the pressing need to act....An equitable and accountable mechanism for distributing climate finance is required....As public climate finance is neither aid nor charity, the design and governance of climate funds must...Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-05-06/8/
6 May 2021 -
, an annually updated climate action plan and a long-term climate action strategy, with little or no...The expansion of the Climate Change Advisory Council under this Bill was welcomed yesterday by the Leas-Cheann...This Bill is riddled with hypocrisy, like all the Government’s actions and messages on climate change...on tackling climate change....Under the Bill, the Climate Change Advisory Council and the Minister for the Environment, Climate and
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-06-16/22/
16 Jun 2021 -
through Second and Committee Stages in late April and been two months closer to the carbon budgets and climate...surrounded by buildings or fields, would be covered when measures were introduced through carbon budgets and climate...scrutiny stage and said that they would go no further on the just transition or climate justice because...a global lead, with countries like Scotland and New Zealand, in how we define a just transition and climate...The fight and the battle will move to the next part which is the climate action plan.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Climate Action
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_climate_action/2020-10-15/3/
15 Oct 2020 -
This fits in with the second question that was posed concerning potentially strengthening the Climate...Climate litigation is expanding exponentially, including here in Ireland with Climate Case Ireland....The law will be part and parcel of this, irrespective of how the Bill ultimately deals with it....Interestingly, there is the Vermont Climate Council, which speaks to Deputy O'Rourke's question....It is an advisory body much like ours and the legislative model there involves climate action plans.
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Debate: Select Committee On Environment And Climate Action
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_environment_and_climate_action/2021-06-08/3/
8 Jun 2021 -
delete lines 1 to 3 and substitute the following: "(9) The Government shall submit the draft of the climate...action plan submitted to them under subsection (4) or a national long term climate action strategy submitted...legislation and the need for it, in some ways I am envious of the Minister, Deputy Ryan, being able to get a Bill...However, this amendment proposes that the climate plan would have to be formally adopted by Dáil Éireann...and the national spatial strategy, both of which must be approved by Dáil Éireann, yet the climate plan
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Parliamentary Question
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2021-06-02/67/#pq_67
Wed, 2 Jun 2021 -
Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the banning...imports with higher emissions than local gas into Ireland, aligns with the objective laid out in the Climate...Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021 and in particular to the commitment to lowering
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Debate: Joint Committee On Climate Action
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_climate_action/2020-10-15/3/
15 Oct 2020 -
Given the proposed changes in the Bill, it was very difficult, even for experts, to look through the...economy in order that the overall cap in the form of the carbon budgets is required to be set under the climate...Bill but that the manner in which that is divided up between Government Departments is a matter of interministerial
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2020-07-17/7/
17 Jul 2020 -
The point of this climate action fund and reducing the NORA levy is to create far more projects that...pleasure to see it in the Seanad's first proper week of sitting because that shows the urgency behind this Bill...I commend the Minister on bringing the Bill to this House so quickly.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Climate Action
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_climate_action/2020-10-15/3/
15 Oct 2020 -
There is a risk that observers come to think of this Bill as climate action in itself and that is not...That is why I said in my opening statement that we should see this Bill as part of a much bigger jigsaw
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2020-12-09/10/
9 Dec 2020 -
Senator Lisa Chambers The Order of Business is No. 1, proposed division on Second Stage of the Finance Bill...conclusion of No. 2, without debate; No. 3, Private Members' business, Deportation Moratorium (Covid-19) Bill...debate not to exceed two hours; and No. 4, statements on the annual national transition statement on the Climate
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-06-25/4/
25 Jun 2021 -
I believe 78 recommendations were made, many of which have been incorporated into the Bill....While I believe the majority of people now accept the principal of climate change and are saying that...Bill will have on them, their families and their communities....In that context, I believe that the definition of "carbon budget" in the Bill must take account of removals...It makes no sense to me that the definition of a climate neutral economy on page 6 of the Bill reads:
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Parliamentary Question
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2018-06-19/472/#pq_472
Tue, 19 Jun 2018 -
Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans...to support the Waste Reduction Bill 2017 progressing to Committee Stage at which formal amendments can
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Debate: Select Committee On Communications, Climate Action And Environment
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_communications_climate_action_and_environment/2017-05-09/2/
9 May 2017 -
deal with Committee Stage of the Prohibition of the Exploration and Extraction of Onshore Petroleum Bill...2016 which was referred to the Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment by...The joint committee published a report on the detailed scrutiny of the Bill....This is the first time a Private Members' Bill has reached Committee Stage in this Dáil....I welcome Deputy Tony McLoughlin, the sponsor of the Bill, and thank him for his attendance.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2009-06-24/17/
24 Jun 2009 -
In particular, my primary motivation in entering government was to tackle the defining issue of climate...standards, transport emissions and the annual carbon budget, and through our support for an ambitious EU climate...In order to address the climate challenge it is necessary that our policy and practical responses are...sustainable development through strengthened planning under the new Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2015-12-15/3/
15 Dec 2015 -
Barrett I welcome the climate change agreement reached by 195 countries....Both of those elements were missing from the climate change legislation we debated in this House....The original Bill specified the Dáil only....On climate change and flooding, we need to debate hydroelectric power.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2015-02-11/6/
11 Feb 2015 -
billion in solar energy and will create a plant in San Francisco, which will do good for the world and climate...We are in the throes of discussing climate change and the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-07-04/10/
4 Jul 2019 -
Deputy Seán Canney The climate action plan launched last month sets out Ireland's 2030 ambitions and...The annexe to the climate action plan contains the detailed actions, timelines and associated responsibility...The Microgeneration Support Scheme Bill 2017 was not opposed by the Government....The Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment has held a number of hearings
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2007-11-29/3/
29 Nov 2007 -
today that the Government is to launch a €15 million campaign to alert the country to the dangers of climate...Next week the US Senate will debate a Bill on climate change and it hopes to put in law the requirement...press upon the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the need to proceed with the Climate...Protection Bill, which was debated in this House almost two months ago?
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2015-02-11/32/
11 Feb 2015 -
is something a lot of us care about and if we are going to have a debate on the environment and the Climate...We have all met with very passionate and dedicated campaigners for climate justice and climate action...We have a definition of low carbon and the Bill is about low carbon so the Bill should contain a definition...There is also no concept of climate justice in the Bill, which is remarkable, as one cannot talk about...the subject without talking about climate justice.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Housing, Local Government And Heritage
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_housing_local_government_and_heritage/2020-11-26/2/
26 Nov 2020 -
The committee has heard briefings on the Bill from both the Department of the Environment, Climate and
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-04-21/25/
21 Apr 2021 -
extent possible, that we deliver on our fair share of the global effort, in essence, providing real climate...Of key significance in this Bill is the embedding, in a statutory process, of carbon budgeting and sectoral
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-06-28/18/
28 Jun 2021 -
Senator Emer Currie This Bill is about breaking down barriers and putting climate action into the hands...While the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill to be debated in the House this...That is what the Bill does. I commend my Green Party colleagues....It is a practical Bill with great potential.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-12-18/56/
18 Dec 2019 -
An honest assessment of the Government's climate action plan would have noted that last year, at the...Emergency Measures) Bill, which articulated one key demand of the global movement, namely, to keep fossil...Stripped of the spin, the underhand trickery used to stop that Bill was astounding....Instead of putting the measures needed in place, the Government sabotaged the Bill and sabotaged democracy...While countries reach their climate targets on paper, emissions continue to rise.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-10-02/29/
2 Oct 2019 -
This is a very skewed interpretation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report....With €6 per tonne one will probably end up with €108 million to spend on climate initiatives....Emergency Measures) Bill 2018 and to support exploration for gas and oil....fossil fuel giants in the world have been leaning on the Minister and his Department not to support this Bill...As somebody said, the Bill has spooked the fossil fuel industry.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2007-10-03/9/
3 Oct 2007 -
I thank Senator Bacik for introducing this important Bill on climate change....The Seanad has a great tradition of publishing Bills and bringing them forward into law....I hope this is the first of many Bills that will be initiated in the House....We are all aware of the imminent and challenging threat posed by climate change....While natural variations in climate are normal over time, humans are contributing to climate change through
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-12-18/54/
18 Dec 2019 -
An honest assessment of the Government's climate action plan would have noted that last year, at the...Emergency Measures) Bill, which articulated one key demand of the global movement, namely, to keep fossil...Stripped of the spin, the underhand trickery used to stop that Bill was astounding....Instead of putting the measures needed in place, the Government sabotaged the Bill and sabotaged democracy...While countries reach their climate targets on paper, emissions continue to rise.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Climate Action
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_climate_action/2018-09-26/2/
26 Sep 2018 -
The national development plan, already in the public domain, sets out the range of climate and energy...The legislation is again a function of Government, which approved a general scheme of a Bill and mandated...We are in dialogue with that Department about progressing the Bill to the next Stages....sector can contribute to Ireland's economic development, and the Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill...national mitigation and the national development plans - will be set out in the national energy and climate
