Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion

Mr. Paul Healy:

To come back to the Senator's point, it is about targets and impacts and measuring those impacts. Mr. Stockil talked about this. The big scheme we stood up is the climate-ready academy. The programmes and awards made through that are based on certification that things happened in the company, including these charters and action plans being implemented. It is called the sustainability pass for those very reasons and that there is an evidence base supporting the person who has graduated and can collaborate.

However, we take the Senator's wider point. There may be something for us to consider in our wider upskilling offering in climate being linked to targets. We will certainly take that online.