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

I wish to restate the possibility of the Minister’s Department or a central facility where policy proposals and options could be asked as questions and the emissions reductions impact of them could be assessed. Essentially, political parties will launch alternative budgets next week. They will be with confirmed data from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of Finance. We do not have the same facility for emissions reductions.

It is important, regardless of who is asking those questions, to start to think in terms of the carbon impact of individual policies. I think it would be beneficial for whoever is in government and in opposition to have a system like that.