Climate Change Policy

Wednesday, 25 February 2026

Questions (191)

Ciarán Ahern

Question:

191. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to provide details of all occasions in which he or his predecessors exercised the power conferred on them under Section 15(3) of the Climate Action & Low Carbon Development Act (2015), which states that ‘the relevant Minister may, from time to time, give a direction to a relevant body requiring it to adopt such measures as are specified in the direction for the purposes of compliance by the relevant body with subsection (1)’; to provide the details of the direction given in all cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15247/26]

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Written answers

Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

I can inform the Deputy that neither myself nor my predecessors have exercised the specific power conferred under Section 15(3) of the Climate Action & Low Carbon Development Act (2015), in respect of any agency under my Department’s aegis.

Climate action requirements contained in Ireland's Climate Action Plan prepared under the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021 are addressed in the respective governance agreements in place with agencies under the aegis of my Department. These obligations are subject to review and are reported on as part of standing governance meetings, which typically take place twice yearly.