Arbitration (Amendment) Bill 2025: Report and Final Stages
Seanad Éireann — 2026-06-09
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Nessa Cosgrove (LAB), Labour Panel

The Minister of State speaks about climate measures when we are not adhering to the Paris Agreement and are very happy to actually be charged fines for not reducing climate emissions so I do not think his comment holds up at all. That is what this is looking for. It is just looking for extra scrutiny - inter-ministerial scrutiny - and I do not think it is unreasonable to put those safeguards on it. Using our climate is definitely not the best argument because this Government in particular is doing nothing for it and is actually happy to have fines rather than meet our climate targets.

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Sitting date: 2026-06-09