Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses. My question is for Dr. Glynn. Recommendation No. 12 in his submission calls for the Bill to explicitly define the method used to calculate the warming effect of each greenhouse gas as a proportion of the carbon budget and which gases, if any, will not be included in the carbon budgets. The Climate Change Advisory Council has recommended a split national target for 2050, with net zero emissions of long-lived gases and a separate volume of biogenic methane. Will Dr. Glynn comment on which gases he thinks should or should not be included? Should they be explicitly outlined in the legislation before us? He also referred earlier to gases which are appropriate for inclusion in short-term five-year carbon budgets but not in longer-term budgets. Will Dr. Glynn comment on those points?