Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 February 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion

Photo of Alice-Mary HigginsAlice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

On that peatlands issue, are there plans to scale up the peatlands piece within the next period? Building on that, because the economic measures and the changing economic practice or incentives is slow, does the Minister agree that more State intervention is needed, for example more designation of State-protected areas and special areas of conservation, SACs? These are the things that we can do. With the Chairman's leave, I have one last point. On the scaling up of retrofitting, only 36,000 of the 500,000 planned retrofits are in social housing. Surely, the things that the State can do early or do on State land would give us more control in being able to exercise-----

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