Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 February 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Review of Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform
Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
The Minister has a couple of representatives from his climate division here. How big is the climate division relative to his overall staff? This is a new process for all of us. Can the Minister reflect on how the primacy of climate and the climate Act are inserted into the work of the Department?
As for financial investment funds, how moneys are filtered through Ireland and are being used for significant fossil fuel or large-scale and harmful agri-business in the global south has been raised with us in the past. They are being conducted through Ireland. Has the Minister plans to address that? He will be aware of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act. Related to that, will the Minister ensure the infrastructure, climate and nature fund, ICN, will not be, directly or indirectly, supporting fossil fuel or harmful climate funding?
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