Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 November 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (Resumed)

9:00 am

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That will have to be worked out. We will figure it out in 2020. It appears that we will not meet the 20% energy efficiency in respect of the 2020 target and that the actual figure will be in the region of 16%. Those are the figures in the Comptroller and Auditor General’s report, the global figures under the Paris Agreement and the targets we have to meet by 2030. We had representatives of other Department and other organisations before the committee and it appears we will not meet those targets either. We are not in a good place in the context of reaching targets we either set for ourselves or to which we have signed up. Will Mr. Carroll agree that would be a fair comment to make?

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