Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy
Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council
2:00 am
Naoise Ó Muirí (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
Part of what the committee has been asked to do is to scrutinise the work of the Climate Change Advisory Council and what it puts forward, which is what we have done today. Several issues have arisen. Questions have been asked about the move away from the Paris test to a temperature neutrality test, the rationale for it and changing the model. The onus is on the CCAC to respond, not right now but as part of the process of addressing it. The witnesses have also offered to share the 15 scenarios that could form part of this. An issue has also come up on whether the ask of agriculture is fair and whether it is enough. I would like to see the CCAC consider this and respond to it. I propose that the witnesses take away the issues that have arisen and produce a paper specifically on them. They can decide what goes into it. The witnesses understand the request and I ask them to respond to the committee with a paper in this regard. Is that okay?
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