Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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9. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a full list of the names of the persons that comprise the membership of the first national climate stakeholder forum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16878/22]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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The National Climate Stakeholder Forum (NCSF) is part of the Government's commitment to engage policy makers, state bodies, and key stakeholders on co-creating climate actions through the National Dialogue on Climate Action (NDCA). The first forum was held on March 22, 2022. It took the form of a one-day deliberative workshop chaired by Professor Alan Barrett.

The first forum examined a number of areas where immediate or expedited action is possible, because of the availability of existing technologies, as follows:

1. Offshore renewables

2. Retrofitting

3. Sustainable Mobility: including active transport and modal shift

4. Engagement, Communications and Climate Literacy

Recommendations were presented to the Minister and will help inform the next Climate Action Plan, and provide insights for sectoral policy.

Further policy priorities will be explored in future meetings of the forum which will meet 3 times a year, and relevant stakeholders will be invited to attend in line with the policy areas chosen for deliberation.

The NCSF is led by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, supported by the Environmental Protection Agency.

The following is a list of stakeholder organisations which attended the forum.  Some organisations had more than one member in attendance.