Enacted Stage in the legislative process — click for what it means 39/2021 Official bill number / year
Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021
- Sponsor
- Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications
- Introduced
- 23 Mar 2021
- Last updated
- 11 Sep 2024
What this bill does AI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Government must set carbon budgets targeting 51% emissions reduction by 2030 (baseline 2018) and achieve climate neutrality by end-2050, with annual climate action plans and five-yearly long-term strategies.
- Ministers must comply with sectoral emissions ceilings for their sectors and report annually to parliament on progress against climate targets, carbon budgets, and adaptation measures.
- Climate Change Advisory Council expanded to 13 members plus three ex-officio directors, with expertise in climate science, energy, agriculture, transport, and other designated areas; proposes carbon budgets to Minister.
Stage timeline What do these stages mean?
- First Stage 33rd Dáil23 Mar 2021
- Second Stage 33rd Dáil21 Apr 2021
- Committee Stage 33rd Dáil12 May 2021
- Report Stage 33rd Dáil16 Jun 2021
- Fifth Stage 33rd Dáil16 Jun 2021
- Second Stage 26th Seanad16 Jun 2021
- Committee Stage 26th Seanad25 Jun 2021
- Report Stage 26th Seanad5 Jul 2021
- Fifth Stage 26th Seanad9 Jul 2021
- Enacted23 Jul 2021
Debates
- From the Seanad 14 Jul 2021
- Report and Final Stages 9 Jul 2021
- Committee Stage (Resumed) 5 Jul 2021
- Committee Stage 2 Jul 2021
- Second Stage (Resumed) 25 Jun 2021
- Second Stage 21 Jun 2021
- Report and Final Stages 16 Jun 2021
- Second Stage (Resumed) 12 May 2021
- Second Stage (Resumed) 6 May 2021
- Second Stage (Resumed) 5 May 2021
- Second Stage (Resumed) 29 Apr 2021
- Second Stage (Resumed) 28 Apr 2021
- Order for Second Stage 21 Apr 2021
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