Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 May 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Online Content Moderation and Reactivation of Economy: Discussion

Photo of Leo VaradkarLeo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is a good question. It is something I would like to discuss in more detail with the Deputy because I have been having those thoughts myself. One small thing we are doing now is we have opened up the green enterprise fund which the Deputy has probably heard about. It is approximately €10 million that will fund businesses to do exactly the things he mentioned, such as audits of their energy use, waste and kind of how they operate, in order to reduce waste, energy use and emissions. That is only a drop in the ocean and a small start because industry accounts for 13% of all emissions and we need to cut them basically by half while still expanding and employing more people. That is an enormous challenge and probably an issue to which the committee could devote a whole session. Is that a lazy answer?

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