Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The following is supplemental, so the Minister of State might not have it to hand. His senior Minister recently said the public spending code will be replaced by a set of infrastructure guidelines. Will the Minister of State confirm whether we are talking about an amendment to the public spending code or a wholesale rewriting of it?

Deputy Durkan’s comments were not about swans and snails; it was - I cannot remember - vertigo something or other. Notwithstanding those comments, Natural Capital Ireland, which I hosted recently for a briefing in the audiovisual room, has done good work on how we can turn. I talked about greenhouse gas emissions but there is also the impact of our public spending code and public projects on natural capital and the natural world. Natural Capital Ireland is doing interesting work on how we can translate the worth – if one can really translate it - of the vertigo integrator, I do not know what the hell-----

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