Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 November 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment

9:00 am

Mr. Mark Griffin:

I do not know. I do not have a figure as to what percentage that is of the number of national schools, but it is a very small percentage. One must walk before one can run. I listened very closely to the Citizens' Assembly and its recommendations last week. Many of the recommendations that came out of the Citizens' Assembly we are either doing or planning to do. One of the issues it raised was peat, for example. The support for peat in Edenderry was phased out in 2016 and the support for peat in west Offaly and Loughrea will be phased out in 2019.

Regarding investment in electric and low-emissions vehicles, we have a low-emissions vehicle task force in place.

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