Climate Change Policy
Dail Éireann — 2020-07-28
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Simon Coveney (FG), Cork South-Central

I wish to back up what my colleague has said. Since the Covid crisis, our development budget is being restructured in many ways. We are looking to re-prioritise how we spend a significant amount of money. Ireland spends about €840 million on development assistance each year. We are looking at how we can effectively reshape that programme in the context of Covid-19 and we are open to talking to other countries about how they are doing the same, by using this extraordinary disruption and tragedy as a way of potentially reshaping economic activity and getting people back to work in the same way we are doing here.

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Sitting date: 2020-07-28