Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that and I appreciate the Minister's direct responses but climate change takes us onto a new level. We have to evaluate every single project in terms of our obligations under the emergency of biodiversity and climate change that we declared back in 2019. It needs transformative action. Going back to the national development plan, I welcome the amount of money that is being put aside. I welcomed many of the projects. My concern relates to the absence of transformative actions, leading out on these projects and what needs to be changed. I do not know the terms of reference were given to the ESRI on this or whether it is open to it to look at the review through the lens of the emergency that we have declared on climate change and biodiversity.

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