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 5482641
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I really appreciate the Member's giving way. I hope that she accepts that I genuinely could not do so for her earlier because the clock was against me, and I showed that it was. I thank the Member for taking the intervention and ask her this in good faith. If I accept, as I do, that she thinks that the road is being held up by the Climate Change Act — her colleague said earlier that that road had been held up for 10 years — may I ask for the rationale for that? If the road has been held up for 10 years and the Act came in four years ago, how can we account for the other six years during which it was held up?
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