Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 April 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Implementation of National Mitigation Plan: Discussion

3:00 pm

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

This might not be possible now but it might be something the EPA might come back on. I refer to its report of April 2017. It estimated that the commercial and public services sector would see an increase, with all of the additional measures, of 19.6% in emissions between 2020 and 2035. Can the EPA break that down between the public services sector and the commercial sector? I do not doubt that people in the public sector are doing things around energy efficiency and have a real commitment to it. However, we see figures where the EPA says that emissions are going to increase by 20% when they should be reducing by 80%.

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