Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Dail Éireann — 2023-02-28
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Ossian Smyth (GP), Dún Laoghaire

What are we doing for climate action? We have four major areas: transport emissions; heating and building emissions; electricity emissions; and agriculture emissions. As the Deputy is aware, we are trying to revolutionise our transport system and we are trying to move people towards public transport. We are cutting public transport fares and we are spending €2 in public transport investment for every €1 we spend on new roads. The Deputy knows that we have significantly increased our investment in retrofitting and that the majority of our retrofitting spend goes on free upgrades for people who cannot afford it. The Deputy knows we are building more renewable energy infrastructure, including more solar and wind than was ever put on the grid, so that at some points we are generating 80% to 90% of our electricity from renewable sources. These are huge and significant changes and people notice it when they find that their bus fare is half of what it was before.

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Sitting date: 2023-02-28