Professor Brian Ó Gallachóir:

I thank the Senator. As she mentioned, we were fortunate to have contributions from Paul Price and Andrew Smith, who did a top-down analysis to explore what the Paris Agreement says Ireland's contribution should be and how to incorporate that into our carbon budgets. In parallel, we carried out a bottom-up exercise where we tried to explore the implications of different sectoral pathways on Ireland. For example, we looked at what the implications would be if we took different approaches in respect of energy and agriculture. There are two key elements on the equity side. One, which the Senator touched on, relates to our fair share and our contribution internationally. There is also the national aspect with the just transition element of this. Both of those are part of the equity remit or discussion and we took them into account. In addition, as the Senator can appreciate, we had many obligations that we were asked to consider by the legislation and we took our role in doing that seriously. What we end up with is, effectively, a balancing, and climate justice was part of that. We added on to that contribution what the Paris Agreement might mean for Ireland. We also considered our historical emissions and the different implications of the projections associated with the bottom-up scenarios. I will ask Ms King to talk about some of the national aspects with regard to the just transition-----