Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Update on the Public Sector Climate Action Mandate: Discussion

11:00 am

Mr. Andrew Bogie:

We have a number of frameworks whereby we spend a lot of time looking at the whole supply chain, but it is very difficult to encompass it all. For electric vehicles in particular or for any other vehicles, so many components are made in various countries. This goes back to mining and so on. In any event, we are operating only within the context of where they are produced. We are not influential enough to spec a vehicle to be totally circular, for example. We work very closely with the Department of the environment on the remanufactured laptops as well. The latter help reduce emissions because they do not require either the production of new parts or mining. Remanufactured laptops involve taking all the parts that would otherwise be thrown away and remanufacturing them into brand new laptops that are now available on our frameworks. It is a successful framework and there is good demand for it.