{"id":5419,"date":"2024-04-24T10:22:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T09:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/?p=5419"},"modified":"2024-04-24T10:22:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T09:22:49","slug":"ministers-statement-a-desperate-attempt-to-distance-himself-from-governments-objection-to-landmark-climate-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/ministers-statement-a-desperate-attempt-to-distance-himself-from-governments-objection-to-landmark-climate-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister\u2019s statement a desperate attempt to distance himself from Government\u2019s objection to landmark climate case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social Democrats TD Jennifer Whitmore has criticised Minister Eamon Ryan\u2019s attempts to distance himself from the Irish Government\u2019s objection to the \u2018Swiss Grannies\u2019 climate case taken in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Whitmore, who is the party\u2019s spokesperson on climate and biodiversity, said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Minister is trying to blame a badly worded response to a parliamentary question for suggesting he had personally sought the Government\u2019s approval to send a legal team to Strasbourg last year to object to a landmark case being taken in the ECHR.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe court ruled that the Swiss government had violated the human rights of a group representing 2,400 older women due to weak climate policies \u2013 a ruling that will put European countries, including Ireland, under legal pressure to meet their targets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinister Ryan\u2019s statement is a desperate attempt to rewrite history. Reading it, one would assume he was a staunch supporter of the seminal climate case taken to the ECHR. The reality is that his Government went to extraordinary lengths to fight the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Minister blames the Attorney General for initiating the State\u2019s failed legal action. The fact is that the AG can only provide advice. It is the Minister, as a member of Cabinet, who signed off on this approach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important to note that Ireland and Switzerland were the only countries to intervene in the case in this manner \u2013 sending their own legal teams to argue against it. This was done for one reason only \u2013 to avoid accountability in international courts for the failure by the State to meet its climate targets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Minister should hold his hands up, accept he got this wrong \u2013 and vow to never again use the State\u2019s limited resources to fight against climate justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>April 24, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Democrats TD Jennifer Whitmore has criticised Minister Eamon Ryan\u2019s attempts to distance himself from the Irish Government\u2019s objection to the \u2018Swiss Grannies\u2019 climate case taken in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). 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