Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 July 2025
Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised)
2:00 am
Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
On A.7, just transition, we have €22.439 million. We have entered into grant agreements. Effectively, that is part of our EU just transition fund. I will give examples of a couple of projects. With regard to tourism infrastructure, €38 million in grants was provided to Fáilte Ireland. That is a type of project. Some €10 million was awarded to the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine’s bioeconomy demonstration projects. A further €30 million was awarded to 44 projects to support locally led development in the region. I recently visited Tullamore on the Accelerate Green project in the midlands, where we have provided funding alongside Bord na Móna for startup seed capital or development capital for businesses in the green tech and green energy sector. Seventy enterprises in that space alone have started up. That is valuable because it creates new jobs and harnesses expertise. We have provided €12 million to the National Parks and Wildlife Service, for example. There are many elements to it. We can provide a list. I can go through them all. We are quite happy to provide sample funding. It is very much focused on the area but we have a good note on this that we can provide for the Deputy's information.
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