Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 8 November 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks
Ms Sarah Clancy:
With regard to the scope and capacity of the PPNs, they are doing fantastically given their resources but their potential is huge. At the risk of talking us down, at our current capacity, it is about doing what we are doing. Unless there are changes to the way the PPNs are resourced, that is the capacity. I do not think the answer to the social dialogue lies in the PPNs. They can be a part of the answer but they would not command the level of respect to be the conduit for that conversation yet. I am just being realistic. "Command" is the wrong word. We have the respect of the people who engage with us but the vast majority of people in the country do not know what is the PPN.
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