Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Following on from my previous question, I am happy to correct my assertion that the Taoiseach's top-up was €50,000. It was, as he correctly stated, €30,000. Will he inform the House at what point he stopped receiving that top-up payment?

Will the Taoiseach also tell us what contribution or engagement the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change has had on the July stimulus plan? I would have thought that was the Taoiseach's first set-piece opportunity to explicitly and comprehensively marry the agenda of climate justice and the framework in the plan for economic recovery. The truth is that the plan is very scant on detail in terms of the Government's commitments on climate change.

The July stimulus plan includes a commitment to a retrofitting skills training initiative to support the future expansion of the national retrofitting programme. This is just one example. We do not know what targets have been set in terms of the numbers to be trained and the impact their work will have on the Government's annual retrofit targets.

Similarly, the Government has made a commitment to increase infrastructure related spending by 12%, or €1 billion. How much of this will be invested in public transport, cycle lanes and greenways? Of the moneys committed in the July announcement, how much is additional to the existing 2020 budget?

It would be my expectation that the Cabinet committee would be the appropriate space for Ministers to develop interdepartmental proposals to meet Ireland's domestic and international climate action obligations. It would be helpful if the Taoiseach were to clarify whether this approach will be adopted by the committee in the time ahead.

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