Professor Brian Ó Gallachóir:

No. The issue of consumption is significant. Our analysis contains what is called elastic demand, so as the price goes up for the different fuels and different forms of energy, part of addressing or responding to that price increase can be to reduce demand. We have not looked at how that could be achieved in terms of lifestyles or consumption patterns. I am not aware of analysis that points directly to that. Our work for the mitigation plan shows what meeting that emissions reduction target will cost. Our analysis came up with a figure of the order of €100 per tonne by 2030. The Teagasc analysis was not available to us at that stage so energy took the full hit. The full 50 million tonnes were taken by the energy system so it involved measures in homes, freight, transport and the services sector.