Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

It is very unusual for the council to pluck out that 42% figure for a best-case scenario, which the EPA said it could not quantify, and not use the 23% figure. I am surprised at that.

There has been a change in how the analysis is done. I am not sure if the council has already done this, but it would be useful and important for the council to provide a comparison between the methodology used now with what was applied previously.

Ms Donnelly mentioned short-lived emissions but it is stated later in the document that it is no longer the State's strategy to incorporate that aspect in the analysis. An EPA report was referenced. How does that match up? If the Paris test is not being used because there are better methodologies and more explicit analysis and quantification of, say, methane in terms of short-lived emissions but at the same time the State is saying that it will not use that in its long-term strategy, how do those two match up?