Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals
2:00 am
Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
They are only proposals but this is very much the route going forward, at an EU level, given everything we have discussed here today. The analysis that the Conflict and Environment Observatory gave us at that meeting suggests that spending money to address the environmental impact of climate change while at the same time putting money into areas which have directly negative consequences for the environment just does not add up.
Has an analysis been done of the cost of climate change in future years and of the impact of this increase in militarisation on climate change or have they been earmarked for future budgets?
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