Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion
Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
In answering other questions, the witnesses were clear, and I fully understand it, that new technologies and, in the context of transport, projected behavioural changes will be part of the pathway. I am wondering about our role in monitoring whether we are on track. If those milestones on the pathway are subject to technology performing or not performing or if it is disappointing or not disappointing, within this process, is each sector taking responsibility for the corrective action that would be necessary should the technology or the behavioural projection not be realised? It is important to know at the outset who has responsibility when we go miss a target that is entered into in good faith. Otherwise, everyone could be coming here and saying to us that they tried their best but did not deliver. I want to understand that process.
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