Climate Action Plan

Wednesday, 25 February 2026

Questions (2)

Ciarán Ahern

Question:

2. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide details of all occasions in which she or her 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 she will make a statement on the matter. [15243/26]

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Written answers

Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

The Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015, and specifically Section 15(3), is intended to enforce compliance with national mitigation and adaptation plans, with oversight on implementation generally falling under the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. As the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade operates within the national adaptation framework and sectoral plans rather than issuing specific operational directions under this section, there are no relevant bodies under my remit or that of my predecessors.