Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion

Photo of Garret AhearnGarret Ahearn (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Yes, I agree. I have family working there so I know I know it quite well, as do most families in Clonmel. We know that about 200 of those 250 engage. Of those 50 that have not, is there a plan in place to improve engagement? Regarding the targets we have to hit for 2030, do we have separate targets for those 250 companies? Even though they are doing extremely well, do we have targets that will allow us to show what the large companies have done and have changed over the last five years, ten years or 20 years and this is where we hope they will get to by 2030? In this race to try to change how things are done, there are different sectors and different companies saying "we will do our share if they do their share". Typically it comes from agriculture, obviously. I would be interested to see what Skillnet has done to engage with agriculture. There is an issue of people in one sector feeling that people in other sectors are not making as much of an effort. If we can show that these big companies have made massive changes over the last number of years it would be very helpful. Are there targets for them separately outside the industrial sector?

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