Kevin Humphreys (Dublin South East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I am sorry for being late. I have read the submission although I do not have the opening statement. I will get it later. The Fiscal Advisory Council is a template. Is it a good template to transfer onto this?

With regard to figures in other submissions, such as the dairy sector's submission this morning, we are transposing the Kyoto Agreement into the heads of the Bill, which clearly gives us a target for 2020. There are negotiations in 2015, which will likely come out at 40%. The other day, we heard that in reality it means a 52% figure for Ireland. In negotiations in the EU context, is it likely to include a 40 year target at this stage given that negotiations must take place in 2015? We were listening to the dairy sector. Will the targets for the agricultural sector be the same as those for other European countries that are not as agricultural? We are a very agricultural economy. Within the negotiation pack of 80% to 95% for Europe, Ireland may not have a target if we take it in the European context. Have the witnesses looked at this in the context of the Green Paper for Europe?