Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 March 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion

Ms Colette Bennett:

With regard to data gaps, we submitted to the then Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment in April 2018, under each of the 17 goals, a list of between one and four data indicator gaps that existed. We have called consistently for the Central Statistics Office, CSO, to have increased funding to monitor the SDGs and to produce a sustainable progress index of its own. We would continue to do that, but the data is publicly available should the Deputy wish to see it.