Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion
Mr. Ed Hearne:
As Ms O'Loughlin alluded to, the steps that we have made in green budgeting are very much iterative. We started out with the kind of material that is in this year's report and last year's report. The plan is to progressively build on them over the next number of years. The principal step forward that we made in that over the past year was to look at each capital programme that went into the national development plan.
We assessed that across seven climate-related criteria, such as air quality, climate mitigation and water quality. Just transition was also one of those considerations. We have a detailed report on that, which we can share with the committee. Over time, as we mentioned, the tagging process that will be relevant to the well-being framework and to equality budgeting, will also be relevant to green budgeting. We expect there to be a specific focus on just transition. The degree to which an expenditure programme contributes to just transition will certainly be part of that process as well.
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