Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 February 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals and Impact of Brexit on the Irish Energy Market: Discussion

5:00 pm

Dr. Eimear Cotter:

That touches on my final point. Every forecasting exercise by its nature will be wrong. What we do to get around that is to produce scenarios and look at different outlooks for the future so that we can make as informed a decision as we can. One cannot pin all hopes on one set of numbers that are looking so far out into the future.

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