Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 May 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach

Developments in the Economy in the Year to Date: Minister for Finance

2:00 am

Photo of Erin McGreehanErin McGreehan (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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At any time of economic crisis, investment in infrastructure is hugely important and is the foundation of any sort of recovery to make sure we get out of it well. Following on from that, considering climate action is key to all our future economic strategies, has consideration been given to front-loading any of the climate action investment to counteract potential fines? Are we looking at how we can make sure that we are investing before we are fined?