Climate Action Plan

Wednesday, 25 February 2026

Questions (31)

Ciarán Ahern

Question:

31. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Transport 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. [15252/26]

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Minister for Transport

Section 15(3) of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 enables responsible Ministers to issue direction to relevant bodies requiring them to adopt specified measures which create or promote compliance with the duties set out more widely in Section 15.

To date, there has been no such direction issued by a Minister for Transport under Section 15(3) of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act (2015).