Caít Keane (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Most of the questions I wanted to ask have been answered. A major issue with regard to sustainable development and renewable and sustainable energy is certainty in the market. Mr. Walker is against the UK model. The UK position on the single 2030 target emissions reduction will help reassure investors the Government understands the need for certainty and flexibility if they are to invest in new low-carbon technologies. One of the main themes at a conference held in Dublin Castle last month, which I helped organise, was that investors need certainty. One way of achieving certainty is knowing what a government will do. What does Mr. Walker recommend to achieve certainty in investment in renewable energy? It is all right to have policy, but if we do not have people to implement this policy we will go nowhere. We must make it happen; there is no point in writing a document if we have nothing at the end of it.