An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Seanad Éireann — 2023-06-20
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Lynn Boylan (SF), Agricultural Panel

There is a recommendation that the report of the Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity should be submitted to the Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action. I am just wondering why that decision was made when one of the recommendations contained in the report proposes the establishment of a stand-alone committee to look at the assembly's other recommendations. There are 159 recommendations in the report. While there is something of a relationship between climate and how the use of land might impact emissions, biodiversity and the crisis relating to it cut across a number of ministerial portfolios. It would be more beneficial for us to have a stand-alone special committee to look at those 159 recommendations and to get everybody around the table in order that those who represent agricultural, marine and urban interests can be heard. This would be better than just having the climate committee, which is focused purely on reducing Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions, consider the matter.

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Sitting date: 2023-06-20