Mr. Oisín Coghlan:

The advisory body should be consulted in advance of the production of sectoral roadmaps to give its input. It is even more important that the body is consulted in advance of the national road map. When a Minister is producing a sectoral roadmap, he or she must have regard to the national roadmap. The Bill does not make that sequencing clear but it should.

Our colleagues in Friends of the Earth in Belfast are working closely with the Assembly on moving the all-island policy forward. Within the UK, Northern Ireland is the only jurisdiction that does not have its own target. Scotland, England and Wales have adopted targets. If it is only to reflect the UK targets specifically for Northern Ireland, that would make sense. It also makes sense, therefore, to co-ordinate what we do here in the Republic on policy, as the North has a similar emissions profile.