David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

With all of the challenges, this is €70 million. We are talking about just transition. At an international conference the Taoiseach said that deep retrofitting will cost €50 billion by 2050. We have major problems with public transport in rural Ireland and in all of the regional cities outside of Dublin, such as Cork, Limerick, Waterford and Galway, and many rural towns and villages have no public transport, and the Department is telling us it will ring-fence €70 million. Whoop-de-doo, €70 million of the carbon tax will be ring-fenced for climate action measures. Does Mr. Carroll see that as a woefully unambitious target for the Department to set itself?