Paul Donnelly (Dublin West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have an email from Coalition 2030, which is an alliance of 70 civil society organisations and networks looking at the environmental, domestic, anti-poverty, equality and trade union sectors of society. The coalition has a couple of questions it would like me to put to the witnesses. How are their Departments designing policy to reach the furthest behind first, in line with a key principle of the sustainable development goals? What strengths and weaknesses in SDG implementation have the Departments identified during 2022 and 2023? What will they do to maintain the strengths and mitigate the weaknesses? Lastly, can the witnesses clearly articulate how far away we are from reaching SDG targets for which their Departments have lead responsibility?