Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 October 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport

Mr. Kenneth Spratt:

No, he is newly appointed to Brussels but instead of reporting directly to me he is reporting into that assistant secretary area. That is because the shift in Brussels is now very firmly to Fit for 55, whereby we would reduce our carbon emissions by 55% by 2030. Thus there is a huge climate agenda in Brussels at the moment. Those four principal officers and that fifth person based in Brussels will be working to that assistant secretary. The Department, and the Department on behalf of the agencies, would have looked for additional numbers of people. I am not into the detail on it but we were happy with what we got. I think we got a little more than half of what we looked for in terms of the number of people but given it is going to take us a bit of time to build up that team, we are happy with that.

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