Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
EU Legislative Proposals: Discussion
2:00 am
Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
Yes, preventative spending. I do not know whether Ms Kinney wants to comment on that. Earlier, she mentioned just transition funding being reallocated for the expenditure under discussion. In the last term of the EU Parliament, it was said the focus was on climate. Obviously, Ms Kinney would know better that me whether that was the case. The focus was always said to be on the climate. Now it seems to be on defence or militarisation, depending on what your point of view is. Are we already seen the outworkings of a shift from the climate approach to the new approach? Has she seen money earmarked for climate transition work used for military spending? What was worked on by Ms Kinney that has seen a cut? I am conscious of time so I will finish on that question.
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