Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy
Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mr. Eamonn Stapleton:
May I make one comment? This is not so much on behalf of the CIF but more from a climate point of view. A number of times, I have heard people ask what this would cost. Without aiming to be diplomatic, in most instances, the real question is what is the cost of not doing it. Through the construction industry, we see that the reality is that correcting some of the impacts, including flood damage and storm damage to our infrastructure, will cost more in both resources and money than some of these things. The figures involved in putting these issues right at this point are not big figures.
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