Earth Day: TDs and senators urged to scrutinise climate policies

Damage wrought by Storm Éowyn in January included the destruction of this home in Connemara. Tuesday April 22 is Earth Day 2025.  Picture: Eamonn Farrell /RollingNews

Elected officials must now step up to scrutinise the Government’s climate action policies and make them accountable under climate law, an environmental group has said.

To mark Earth Day 2025, Friends of the Earth said that the Oireachtas must respond to the climate crisis with the “urgency and commitment it deserves”, and singled out TDs and senators who will form part of the soon-to-be-created committees as key in ensuring the Government takes the action required.