Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)

Of course. Considering that this is the finance committee and because we are constantly told financial risk is a reason things cannot be done, it is interesting that, in this case, things are being done while there is a financial risk.

I have a question for Ms Kinney. When Senator Higgins was out of the room, I mentioned how a good bit of work was done previously on fiscal rules by a committee we were members of. I mentioned how we argued strongly at the time that there should be a relaxation of fiscal rules for environmental causes because, if we are serious about the climate crisis, we must realise it will cost huge sums that would not really fit in with fiscal rules.