Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Committee on European Union Affairs

Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion

2:00 am

Ms Karen Ciesielski:

I am sorry about that. I was not sure that the Deputy was coming back. I am happy to follow up with the Deputy afterwards because he rightly pointed out some risks around regulation. There are also risks around air pollution, water pollution and going in the wrong direction of investing in unsustainable land use practices. The question he raised provides a great opportunity to talk about the land use review, which is supposed to offer a bird's eye landscape-specific perspective on how we are using land in Ireland for transport, housing, energy and things like data centres and should be a driver of how we make policy decisions and changes in the future. That big piece of work has been conducted in the land use review and it is a great opportunity to talk about that again and the importance of publishing it so that we can see and use it as a future decision-making tool.

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