Ciarán Ahern (Dublin South West, Labour)

I wish to come back to the methodology used in this report. The move from the Paris test to temperature neutrality is key to us in considering the next budget. Ms Donnelly mentioned earlier that the IPCC is using the Paris module, or Paris test. My understanding is that the IPCC does not prescribe any metrics regarding these types of things. It says that rapid reduction in methane, rather than temperature stabilisation, is required. There is a new differentiation of biogenic methane coming into the discourse around emissions as well. The criticism here is that this gives the agricultural sector easier targets. It is felt that this model and some of the CCAC's modelling assumes business as usual in agriculture, and that some of these methodologies might be juking the stats in order to give agriculture easier targets. I ask for Ms Donnelly’s response to that criticism.