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

There are targets within the heads of Bills, but, to a great extent, it is a question of getting the foundations right. The 2030 target will be negotiated in 2015 and there will be a consequence as a result of those negotiations. Having listened to earlier evidence to the committee, we are still not clear on what will be counted. Will bogs be counted as a single entity? Will forestry or grasslands be counted? If we were to unilaterally set a target for 2030 prior to 2015, could we be at cross-purposes?

If we were to set a target that included the revitalisation of bogs, grasslands, grazing lands and forestry, but these were not counted in the overall negotiations in 2015, we could have major problems. Do we need to set these targets?