Cabinet Committees

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 5 October 2022

Wednesday, 5 October 2022

Ceisteanna (24, 25, 26, 27, 28)

Bríd Smith

Ceist:

24. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Environment and Climate Change will next meet. [44839/22]

Mary Lou McDonald

Ceist:

25. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Environment and Climate Change will next meet. [48034/22]

Richard Boyd Barrett

Ceist:

26. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Environment and Climate Change will next meet. [48334/22]

Paul Murphy

Ceist:

27. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Environment and Climate Change will next meet. [48337/22]

Ivana Bacik

Ceist:

28. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Environment and Climate Change will next meet. [48472/22]

Freagraí scríofa

The Taoiseach

I propose to take Questions Nos. 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28 together.

The Cabinet Committee on the Environment and Climate Change oversees the implementation of the ambitious Programme for Government commitments in relation to the environment and climate change.

The Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021 sets out Ireland’s key climate change commitments. It sets challenging carbon reduction targets for 2030 and the statutory commitment of achieving a climate neutral economy by 2050.

Following approval of the carbon budget programme by the Houses of the Oireachtas in April, sectoral emission ceilings determining the upper limits of greenhouse gas emissions for all sectors have been agreed by Government, save for the Land Use Sector, which requires further analytical work to be undertaken over the coming 15 months

Agreed policies and measures designed to ensure that sectors quickly and significantly reduce their emissions have been set out in the Climate Action Plan 2021.

The Plan will be further revised this year, to ensure that that the actions it contains are sufficient to meet the reduction targets that have been made explicit through the setting of the carbon budgets and sectoral emissions ceilings.

The next meeting of the Cabinet Committee is scheduled to take place on Thursday 27 October, and it will continue to meet regularly to progress all aspects of the Government’s ambitious climate action and environmental policies.

Question No. 29 resubmitted.