Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

-----is calling on the new Government to review the investments it makes to bring them into line with international climate change obligations. The NTMA Act allows the Irish Strategic Investment Fund which is to be reviewed to invest in fossil fuel production. One of the worst investments made was an investment by the State in a TransCanada pipeline from the tar sands in Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico. It involves one of the dirtiest means of extracting fossil fuels from the planet and we have a direct investment in it. There has to be joined-up thinking by the Government on how we should seriously set out to achieve these targets.

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