Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Heads of Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Discussion

6:15 pm

Dr. Brian Ó Gallachóir:

We come at it a different way in the sense that we look at the target, we impose it and we see what is required to deliver it. Comparing that to where we are heading, we are far away from it. As I stated earlier, it is particularly in these areas of heat and transport because our focus has been on electricity in the policy space. We get electrification of heat which helps, but the remainder of the requirements relate to improving energy efficiency in buildings, using biogas and biomass for heating, and increased use of bioenergy in the transport system. It is quite different from the trajectory on which we are currently.

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