Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 June 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion

Ms Bernie Connolly:

On the first point around the tendering process, other jurisdictions use community and social benefit clauses in a lot of tender processes for many things. It is something the sector has pushed on a lot and it has not really manifested itself. There are some small examples, maybe even for local authorities themselves to have some kind of social benefit clause in some of their tendering process, but certainly that is something that could be looked at much more widely. That was the only comment I wanted to make on that one. There were a number of other questions in there, so I will let others come in.