Debate contribution: Net Zero Policies: Cost-benefit Analysis
Debate contribution by Mr John Blair on .
- MLA
- Mr John Blair
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 14 April 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Private Members' Business
- Heading
- Net Zero Policies: Cost-benefit Analysis
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5482492
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I speak on behalf of the Alliance Party to oppose the motion. Let us be honest about what the motion really is. It is not about better evidence, better value for money or better public services; it is about rolling back the climate commitments that the Assembly has already made in law and casting doubt, yet again, on the reality and urgency of the climate crisis. What we have here is Trumpian denial in one of its forms from the usual source. As I have stressed in the Chamber on numerous occasions —
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