Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Committee on European Union Affairs

Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. David Rossiter:

The Deputy has highlighted some of the cross-cutting structural issues with the SDGs. They cut across various aspects of the Government's work and various Departments. That is why the coalition since its foundation has tried to advocate. There is a small SDG team in the Department of Climate, Energy, and the Environment, which has been covering a lot of the Government's work in its SDG reporting and delivery at UN level. We have been advocating for that unit to be moved into the Department of the Taoiseach because it is such a cross-cutting issue. There was a risk in the past that the goals were considered as a climate and environment thing because-----

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