Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 September 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion

2:00 pm

Mr. Mark Griffin:

I will get to the point. There will be investments in energy efficiency on commercial and public building stock and supports for changing from oil-fired boilers. There are all of the renewable energy supports with the transport investment and so on. What we will do now as part of the work feeding into the national energy and climate plan is take that detailed assessment that Mr. Scheer and the people working with him in the SEAI and the transport research and modelling group, TRAM, have done and see exactly where that level of investment positions us in terms of meeting our 2020 targets. The whole purpose of the national energy and climate plan is to look at sensible things that have been included in the national mitigation plan, at self-evident measures that have been included in the national development plan which would give a very significant carbon reduction dividend, and then make that assessment as to what additional mitigation measures may need to be included to ensure that the target that we have set for 2030 is achievable.

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