Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 March 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion

Ms Hannah Gilmartin:

I will clarify. We are trying to bring in the SDGs as a framework that policymakers can use. There are specific policy teams looking after specific policies, like the ones the Deputy has mentioned. They will review their own data and policy, the effectiveness, and they will make the decision. Policy teams are not waiting for our CSO data progress reports. We are sharing those with them. The way it works at the moment, that is not what is informing whether a policy will be renewed. It will come down to the policy team on the ground which knows that policy area. I do not know if anyone else wants to respond on that. From the SDG governance perspective, policy teams would not wait for the data governance board or the interdepartmental working group, which are more co-ordination mechanisms, so they will respond where required.