Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I might just say, if it makes sense, that if I was doing so, my instinct would be to include it within the existing PBO. It would take two years to create a new agency. I know that from experience, having helped to set up the PBO. It took three years, and it may have even been four years by the time it was fully set up. I would perhaps look at the remit of the office. At the time the office was being established, I recall asking it how it would integrate its work with the climate agenda. Perhaps it is about looking at the mandate within the Committee on Parliamentary Privileges and Oversight and its resources. The creation of a new office might not necessarily be the solution. Integrating the economic assessment and the climate assessment within the one PBO might make sense.