Deputy Boland asks Minister to detail supports for sustainable ethical fashion

Deputy Grace Boland has put sustainable and ethical fashion on the parliamentary record by asking the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to set out what actions his Department is promoting or funding, in written questions and answers published by the Oireachtas on 24 February 2026. The extract supplied records Boland’s request verbatim and ends with the fragment "The PQ asks," indicating the published list includes her question but the supplied material does not carry the Department’s response or a full PQ reference number.

The 24 February 2026 Dáil print listing, presented bilingually as "CEISTEANNA I gCOMHAIR FREAGRA Ó BHÉAL / QUESTIONS FOR ORAL ANSWER" and "CEISTEANNA LE hAGHAIDH FREAGRAÍ SCRÍOFA / QUESTIONS FOR WRITTEN ANSWER," shows a busy schedule of parliamentary business the same day. Among items in the Data Oireachtas extract is question 200 from Matt Carthy, which asks whether the Minister or his Department "has had any meetings with, or received any reports from, the National Waste Collection Permit Office since March 2025" and carries reference [14627/26].

Other entries on the Dáil list provide context for the day’s cross-cutting scrutiny of public policy. Pa Daly’s question 285 asks for an update on all Bills under the Minister for Transport’s remit mentioned in the 2026 Spring Legislative Programme and is catalogued as [14034/26]. Donna McGettigan’s question 286, reference [14043/26], asks what changes are planned to improve public transport between Shannon, County Clare and the University of Limerick, citing a recent study which identified that link as "a significant obstacle to students." The list also includes Whitmore’s question 287 [14067/26] on company assurances for staffing, and Malcolm Byrne’s item [14029/26] to the Taoiseach, both of which appear in truncated form in the supplied extract.

A separate Oireachtas.ie fragment records Deputy Ken O'Flynn’s Question 732 to the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration, opening "whether capital or reform funding" but truncating the remainder. The Qna Files print collated record for Tuesday 24 February 2026 is also noted in the supplied material; its summary states it collates all written answers and written statements for that date and describes the print record as "authoritative" in the fragment provided.

Crucially, the supplied extracts do not include any ministerial answers for Grace Boland’s fashion question or for the other cited PQs. The research notes explicitly record that no Ministerial responses, funding figures, programme names, or departmental confirmations are present in the materials supplied for 24 February 2026, and that the Boland item lacks a full PQ reference in the extract.

To move this story from question to answer, the Minister’s written reply to Deputy Boland must be located in the Oireachtas written answers archive or the full Qna Files print record for 24 February 2026; only that material would confirm whether the Department is promoting programmes, awarding grants, or allocating funding to sustainable and ethical fashion. For now, the parliamentary record dated 24 February 2026 establishes the question and places sustainable and ethical fashion on the official agenda, with further reporting contingent on the Department’s published response.