Professor Brian Ó Gallachóir:

I read the transcripts. Different Departments brought up the issue of relying on our analysis. It is the same message that is on the record all the time. The comment is always, "We do not agree with this analysis on the use of biomass in power-gen", even though that is not in our analysis. We have bioenergy in our analysis. I cannot see how we can have a climate mitigation solution with bioenergy. I see potential economic, agricultural and social opportunities associated with bioenergy and I believe it is not being discussed in the way it should be. It is a difficult thing to discuss and there are environmental consequences, but there are consequences with everything we do. We could look at the EVs that are promoted and that are excellent, but if one talked to the people in the Congo where cobalt mining is being used to generate that, they would give a very different picture of how green EVs are. For every one of these technological solutions, we can find benefits and challenges associated with them. Our analysis is technology-agnostic. We do not pick winners; we look for least-cost solutions. It is a question of what an energy system of the future will look like if we want to meet this ambitious target at least cost.