Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 October 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and COP26: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications

Photo of Darren O'RourkeDarren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

In the lived experience of many of the thousands of people who have availed of the warmer home scheme, its title is a misnomer because they do not have warmer homes as a result of it. Their homes are slightly less cold but they are a long way off being retrofitted, warm and less reliant on carbon. I appreciate the policy framework and political position to which the Minister referred but what people want to see is climate action. They want to see the expansion of public transport networks and increased retrofitting activity. At the moment, all we have are plans. What is happening falls short of what is needed.

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