Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Bill - 24th January 2024

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Bill.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2024-01-24/debates/A1000396-971A-4B21-A56B-CD244A370725/NorthernIrelandExecutiveFormationBill

14:04 Sir Robert Buckland

We are in the process of preparing a report on the state of public services in Northern Ireland. We have taken a wealth of evidence, and I am grateful to the hon. Members for Strangford (Jim Shannon) and for Upper Bann (Carla Lockhart), who are active members of the Committee. They will have heard the same evidence we have heard. We are looking into the energy market and the move to net zero in Northern Ireland. That is a very important issue, bearing in mind hard-pressed bill payers, and the particular pressures that they are under given the way that energy is supplied. We are also looking at issues as varied as education right through to paramilitarism.

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14:05 Paul Girvan

Because Northern Ireland sits under EU rules and laws, the carbon tax offset for energy costs is twice what it is in the rest of the United Kingdom, simply because we are having to take on board European law as opposed to what is passed in this House.

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