No climate change bill to be discussed by executive

[Junkhead]

18 bills are to be debated in Stormont from now until July... 3 have already been heard - taxi regulation, libraries and health matters. The fact that the executive still continues to ignore the issue of climate change makes it clear that they don't consider it a serious matter - unlike Westminster and the Scottish Parliament, whose lead they should be following..

Edit: sorry, wrong forum by accident, could someone move this to Northern Ireland?

[johnfás]

Presumably Climate Change is not one of the 18? Or you're just annoyed it might wait until July? The post could be made a bit clearer.

[Keith-M]

For once a bit of common sense from the NIA, there are real issues to be debated rather than wasting time on trendy nonsense.

[Junkhead]

Apologies, a bad post altogether, wrong forum as well...

Climate change isn't one of them - the bills include pensions, child support, education body restructuring, etc, but nothing on climate change..

[johnfás]

Is it really an issue they would discuss though, or have they signed up to obligations centrally from Westminster? I don't know, just asking the question as to whether an individual policy for the North would actually exist.

[Junkhead]

Is it really an issue they would discuss though, or have they signed up to obligations centrally from Westminster? I don't know, just asking the question as to whether an individual policy for the North would actually exist.

It's an issue that every legislature should be discussing... Westminster lists the environment as a "transferred" matter, therefore it's the responsibility of the Assembly to act in this area. the NIA hasn't signed up to the UK's climate change bill despite calls to do so. Generally, Westminster legislation is considered for implementation in Northern Ireland, a recent example being the question as to whether the buying age for cigarrettes should be elevated to 18. At the moment there are no statuatory obligations for NI to cut it's carbon emissions, and from the recent announcements, this looks set to continue.