Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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I would be delighted to try to come up with some but the Department taking responsibility for climate delivery ought to be suggesting more meaningful ones than are on this list, and more timely ones as well. While I agree with the Minister of State that we need to focus on outcomes and outputs, the extent to which the actions promised in 2022 were delivered by different Departments ought to be considered in our dealing with the Estimates for the following year. If we are seeing a Department, it might not be the Minister of State's Department, but one of the other Departments consistently not delivering any of its climate actions, we ought to be seeing that on our Revised Estimates Volume, REV. I am a member of the Select Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment as well but I am not on the other ones. We would then have material to cross-examine why a Department was not taking climate action seriously. It might be a cross-government indicator that we could use.