Eoin Hayes (Dublin Bay South, Social Democrats)
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2067. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the public and private financial resources required and available to support her Department’s plans to meet Ireland’s climate targets by 2030; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19099/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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Ireland has adopted a whole-of-Government approach to achieving the State’s domestic and international commitments in respect of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and becoming more climate resilient, both to 2030 and beyond.

The policies and measures which will enable the achievement of these goals are set out in the Climate Action Plan 2025, which places a particular focus on those sectors responsible for the majority of Ireland’s emissions.

The Department of Health supports this process chiefly through actions led by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland aimed at reducing the carbon footprint of Ireland’s built environment, including the health sector, through the alignment of capital expenditure programmes with this objective.

In addition, the HSE Climate Action Strategy 2023-2050 also sets out a range of actions which both align with and build on the national objectives enshrined in the Climate Action Plan process. The prioritisation and resourcing of the actions in this Strategy are matters for the HSE.