Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Committee on European Union Affairs

Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. John McGeady:

Exactly. It could be as simple as all policies being tagged with an SDG and having a check list against each Department, the budget lines for the various Votes and the specific policies the Department hopes to invest money in over the course of the following year and now, with medium term budgeting over the course of the five years. Linking those to SDGs would be one way to emphasise policy coherence. Earlier, I mentioned the idea of an SDG impact assessment tool. If that was in place at the policy planning level as well as the implementation level, you would be actually able to see when a policy is enhancing or bringing us further towards an SDG, when it is actually working against an SDG and sometimes, you have competing-----

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