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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Update on the Public Sector Climate Action Mandate: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: Is their budget a lifetime budget or is the requirement to stay within this year's budget? There is an entirely different view if you take the lifetime impact and you factor in the carbon impact. As we go along, the price of carbon is heading towards the moon. What budget are they staying within?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Update on the Public Sector Climate Action Mandate: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: I would imagine that too.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Update on the Public Sector Climate Action Mandate: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: No one is biting with the president's teeth, as they say in America. The reality is the pressure of today's budget squeezes out all the desirable principles. The targets are not even ambitious; they are quite modest targets in a lot of areas. We need to shift something here. I saw from the SEAI's projection that the cost of securing some of these targets is between €9.5 billion...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Update on the Public Sector Climate Action Mandate: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: The SEAI has presented the evidence of where we are.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Update on the Public Sector Climate Action Mandate: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Update on the Public Sector Climate Action Mandate: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: As regards procurement, I do not think the witnesses got around to answering the question about data. If we want to drive change, we have to benchmark where we are and hold people's toes to the fire as to where they are moving. Are the witnesses able to tell us, or is someone able to tell us, the percentage of EVs being acquired where public bodies are acquiring vehicles? What is in 2024...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Update on the Public Sector Climate Action Mandate: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: That is illustrative, but at the back of the submission, in one of the appendices, there is a heap of things, like 100% recycled paper and no fossil fuel boilers going in. Do we get a snapshot? Is there an annual snapshot, a sort of name and shame, if obvious decisions are being made that fall outside what would be reasonable procurement rules? I find on this committee that we struggle to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Update on the Public Sector Climate Action Mandate: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: They are just qualitative things. They are not concrete measures of anything.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Update on the Public Sector Climate Action Mandate: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: The SEAI has said that there has not been any progress since 2020. What are the critical things on which we might have expected progress but it has not been made?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Update on the Public Sector Climate Action Mandate: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: The SEAI is pushing the beacons of excellence. Is that visible on some-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Update on the Public Sector Climate Action Mandate: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: Do the witnesses want to comment on the contractors and why we cannot use them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Update on the Public Sector Climate Action Mandate: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: What is the problem with-----

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Centres (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 65. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the criteria under which new data centres can be approved for connection and permitting; whether a long-term pathway for the development of the sector can be set out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41417/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 73. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has circulated potential targets under the Circular Economy and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022 to stakeholders in the various sectors; and if he would consider integrating these targets with the process for monitoring climate target delivery. [41414/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will adjust the current cleaning service grant at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41060/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 450. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí who have retired in the Mayo district in each of the years 2020 to 2024, inclusive. [41354/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 451. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in the Mayo district who are currently on sick leave. [41355/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 452. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí recruited in the Mayo district in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024. [41357/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (10 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 76. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the lessons that have been learned from the first phase of the town centre first policy; the constraints, if any, on its rapid expansion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40312/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (10 Oct 2024)

Richard Bruton: 26. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has identified the need to alter the priorities in Ireland’s aid programmes, in view of the emerging global crisis points; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40314/24]