James O'Connor (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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117. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an analysis of the impact the climate action plan will have on the revised national development plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56468/22]

Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The updated Climate Action Plan is led by the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications on behalf of the Government. The National Development Plan was reviewed in 2021 and approved by Government. All public capital policy interventions, including those that might be developed to support climate action, will need to be afforded within the parameters detailed in the National Development Plan 2021-2030.

It was not the role of the NDP Review to set out a specific blueprint for the achievement of the Climate Action Plan actions. Rather, the Departments in receipt of the capital investment allocations are directly responsible for developing a detailed suite of policies and measures to maximise the impact of this planned investment in delivering actions and achieving targets detailed in the Climate Action Plan. It is the effective implementation of these policies, which will need to blend regulation, behavioural change and taxation measures with direct Government investment that will lead to the achievement of Ireland’s climate ambitions.