RTÉ News has seen a draft report from the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Climate Action, which gives an insight into what TDs and Senators believe is required for Ireland to achieve its climate change targets
While the text will change before publication - it gives an insight into what TDs and Senators believe is required for Ireland to finally achieve its climate change targets.
The report says the Oireachtas Committee is of the "strong view" that Ireland must move quickly to put the structures and systems in place to make Ireland compliant.Structural Changes The draft lists several "key priorities" for the government. They include enacting new climate change legislation this year.
It says the Minister for Finance should introduce legislation this year which would see the carbon tax rise "to at least €80 per tonne by 2030". However, the Committee is assessing a proposal that tax credits be given back to households who lower their emissions. However that is not included in one of the eight priority recommendations in the Agriculture section of the report.
Buildings The report says that residential and public building stock represented 11% of Ireland's overall greenhouse gas emissions in 2017.
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