[Published in the Irish Times on Friday March 26th 2021] While the Cabinet was busy finalising the Climate Bill on Tuesday last, over in the Dáil chamber members of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action were being treated to a vision of what climate action might actually look like. Expert witnesses described a possible …
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[Published by the Irish Times on the 8th October 2020] Yesterday, 102 days after the formation of the Government, we finally saw the publication of the government’s Climate Bill. It should represent a milestone in Irish climate policy, and an important early achievement of the new government. But does it deliver on the commitments made …
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[Published by the Irish Times on the 30th June 2020] It is no secret that a significant portion of the opposition within the Green Party to entering government came from the party’s youth wing. However, this has been misread as political naivety and an unwillingness to engage in pragmatic, “realistic” politics. In fact, the ongoing …
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