86 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason he was informing members of the public, as recently as 21 October 2011, that climate change legislation would be published in 2012, when the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government had told IBEC on 5 October that national climate policy may benefit from support through legislation, as signalled in the programme for Government, but that is a matter for another day, the first priority is completing the climate policy review and the follow-up steps in terms of charting a course to a low-carbon, climate resilient economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34237/11]

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86 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason he was informing members of the public, as recently as 21 October 2011, that climate change legislation would be published in 2012, when the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government had told IBEC on 5 October that national climate policy may benefit from support through legislation, as signalled in the programme for Government, but that is a matter for another day, the first priority is completing the climate policy review and the follow-up steps in terms of charting a course to a low-carbon, climate resilient economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34237/11]

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1. 15 November 2011

   Proposed Legislation

   86 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason he was informing members of the public, as recently as 21 October 2011, that climate change legislation would be published in 2012, when the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government had told IBEC on 5 October that national climate policy may benefit from support through legislation, as signalled in the programme for Government, but that is a matter for another day, the first priority is completing the climate policy review and the follow-up steps in terms of charting a course to a low-carbon, climate resilient economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34237/11]

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