Dr Emma Howard
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
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And as you mentioned, that one piece by Aisling Maloney in the Sunday Independent.
quotes the minister saying, you know, we have to be better prepared.
But nowhere in the papers and nowhere in the budget discussions, for example, are we talking about how we mitigate against climate change.
And like what's really important for people to understand is that it's not just environmentally prudent, but it's fiscally prudent.
And the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council had a really good paper they released a couple of weeks ago showing that if we act now, the costs are about 1% of our domestic economy.
But the longer we wait, inaction means that that cost is going to double or potentially quadruple because we're going to face compliance costs.
We're going to face increased health costs because if you look at, you know, more fires, more air pollution.
So, you know, we need to be acting to try and improve our energy security by decarbonising.
And again, any of those climate action measures.
like decarbonisation, help with the cost of living as well.
So there's really such a strong argument to look at climate action.
We're seeing all these apocalyptic scenes across the papers, nearly 300,000 people in the continent evacuated.
We have fires burning here and nobody's talking about the elephant in the room.
And actually in the Business Post, they have the figures, the calculations from the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, which basically show if you look at this additional spending that they flagged they're going to do in this year's budget, if you take into account what IFAC estimate will be the overspend from the Department of Education, Department of Health,
If you look at the planned increased spending under the National Development Plan, just the standstill costs of the fact we have a growing ageing population and adjusting like pensions and welfare payments for inflation.
It's not enough.
Yeah, exactly.
So, you know, you take into account all of these spending commitments that are already there.
It leaves about 800 million for new measures in the budget.
And that's not taking into account the fact that we still have to have a new public sector pay deal in this year's budget.
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