Anne Rabbitte

Inclusion and prioritisation of SDGs in Programme for Government

Advocating measures to reduce climate change and improve public health, specifically by passing a Clean Air Act, increasing active travel and public transport, transforming the built environment to promote healthier lives, creating a sustainable agri-food sector and introducing…

Responding to the planned programme for government, outlining and welcoming what measures included would reduce climate change and improve public health, while criticising specific shortfalls of the programme for government that would fail to properly address climate change or…

Climate & Environmental Legislation • All future climate and environmental legislation should be subject to a comprehensive Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) to assess its impact on jobs and on the environment. Ireland can no longer blindly sign-up to unachievable targets,…

That the programme for Government would prioritize the issues raised in the Ageing Better manifesto produced by our organisation in partnership with Active Retirement Ireland; responding with a whole of Government approach::appointment of a senior Minister for Older People, a…

That any Programme for Government confronts the climate crisis with the same determination as efforts to tackle Covid-19, puts people fairer and faster climate action, including at least 8% annual reductions in emissions over the lifetime of the Government and passing the new…

That the next Government would commit to and deliver fairer and faster climate action through a number of key policy areas: strengthening climate legislation and governance mechanisms, public transport and active travel, energy efficiency, renewable energy, a just transition for…