Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 October 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals

Mr. Caoimhín Ó Ciaruáin:

The Deputy is correct in that the baseline is different and is a more challenging prospect for us, particularly in transport. As Mr. Burke has alluded to there, we have the development of the climate action plan, which hopefully we will see in the next couple of weeks, that will set out how and what that pathway will be. Yes, it will be a big challenge to deliver on that. The EU has a 55% target across all sectors and for transport, we are talking specifically about a level of decarbonisation of approximately 51%. The type of proposals we are looking at today are in that space in respect of positioning us to deliver upon that. There is nothing incompatible in the types of measures that are being talked about in these specific files that will do any damage to the level of ambition in our own climate action plan. In fact, they are fairly well aligned.

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