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

The Tipperary Energy Agency was mentioned. It may have written to the committee suggesting a visit to look at some of the work it is doing on deep retrofit. What was said here is true and that it is a good example. Perhaps that is something we should consider.

If the EPA is not the right body to answer this question, the witnesses might know whom I should ask. Who would tell us whether the targets we have set ourselves in the White Paper and the mitigation papers for an 80% reduction by 2050 are ambitious enough? My understanding is that those levels of ambition were set prior to the Paris Agreement. Whose job is it to reassess whether they are ambitious enough and if we are likely to have a higher target? Has anyone in the State done that research and could it be provided to us?