237. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will respond to the recently published estimates by a member of the Government's Climate Change Advisory Council that failure to meet Ireland's EU 2020 and 2030 climate action targets could result in a shrinking of fiscal space by €3 billion to €6 billion; the way in which his Department will respond to the potential risk to public finances this poses and if serious action will be carried out to increase climate ambition and action here; if this action will be included in the national mitigation plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27707/16]

Summary

237. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will respond to the recently published estimates by a member of the Government's Climate Change Advisory Council that failure to meet Ireland's EU 2020 and 2030 climate action targets could result in a shrinking of fiscal space by €3 billion to €6 billion; the way in which his Department will respond to the potential risk to public finances this poses and if serious action will be carried out to increase climate ambition and action here; if this action will be included in the national mitigation plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27707/16]

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

1 official file

• Climate Change Policy

  xml · EN · 28 September 2016

  ViewDownloadOpen at official source

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.