Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In your concluding remarks, you said that investment in new oil and gas projects is required even in deep decarbonisation scenarios, which might come as a surprise to some members. Could you expand on your reasoning for that? We are considering legislation here to ban offshore oil and gas exploration. Could we get your views on that and on missing our 2020 targets? There are concerns about reaching our 2040 targets. Is there any country you could highlight that is doing well in this space and to which we could look as an example to follow?