Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The witness talks about two laps. We are at risk of being lapped at the moment. We are being lapped. We are the fourth of only four countries who are not meeting our renewables targets. It is going to be a mile away from it. It is going to cost us a fortune. We are one of only two European countries who are not going to meet our climate targets. We are under-investing. It has taken eight years to do cost-benefit analysis on smart metering. One has to be careful to get it right, but eight years to do cost-benefit analysis is excessive. I hear that across the sector. We need ambition. We need to start doing things. We are falling behind. We are missing the economic opportunity that we have as a country. It is not all bad. We can be good at this. We are good at balancing the system. We should do it.