Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 October 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion

2:00 pm

Ms Laura Behan:

It is a modelling of the energy system. In essence, it is proposing different variables of measures that can impact on fuel consumption on the transport side and on heating consumption and how they affect emissions between 2021 and 2030. The research is looking at energy use first and then emissions. It is very difficult to extract the transport piece from that. It is considered as an overall energy system and the modelling is conducted on that basis. I am not sure it will be feasible to answer the Deputy's question within that timeframe. I would hope that we would be able to do so in the context of the development of the NECP. As Ireland's national climate pathway is set out and when the interplay between the various sectors, measures are all fed in, in an iterative-----

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