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. Alan Ryan:
To add to that, this year we added a new functionality that you can go in and type in a public body's name on our monitoring reporting system. It will show you their actual performance to date, the target they need to get to and their gap. It will show whether a body is green or red. Green obviously means they are on their trajectory and red means they are not. We have changed our partnership programme a little bit to be more focused on the reality of their situation. We have done some qualitative assessments called critical success factors within partnership, namely, money, resources, dedication, vision and commitment. We assess these factors against what we think is critical, what good public bodies are doing, and then we rate bodies against that. Qualitatively is about whether the body is ready for it and quantitatively is the data saying the body is performing. Public bodies are getting behind that and it shows the power of the targets and all the support Government has given over the past ten years. It is a common language now within public bodies. The previous target of 33% by 2020 was common language. Now the new target common language is the 51%. It is the power of targets.