Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 October 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals

5:00 pm

Mr. Dara Lynott:

In terms of the policy measures and costs, we would see it in the context of the ambition of 2050. There is a bag of policies that have to be decided. Each lead Department in charge of the biggest emissions will need to come forward in a very open and transparent way and argue their case with a set of costed policies for critique by the Government. That is probably the best way. They have to be revived on five-year periods. It allows for a broad discussion and critique of the plans made by the Departments and their costings. Irrespective of the policies that are implemented, the EPA's role in this is to ensure we are tracking the exact emissions. It will be our responsibility to report to the UN and the EU in this regard.

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