Updated / Thursday, 6 May 2021
15:52
Rural TDs have expressed serious reservations about the proposed legislation
Minister for the Environment and Climate, Green Party leader, Eamon Ryan has introduced the Climate Action Bill to the Dáil.
The wide-ranging bill includes cuts in carbon emissions, a key priority for the Green Party when it entered Government last year.
Rural TDs have this afternoon expressed serious reservations about the proposed legislation.
TD Mattie McGrath, of the Rural Independent Group, warned that the Bill, which he said is "being rushed through", diminishes our democracy as it includes "little or no democratic accountability", and gives the Climate Change Advisory Council "much more input" than elected TDs.