Malcolm Noonan (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I thank the Minister for his presentation. We also dealt with this issue with members of the Climate Change Advisory Council the last day. We had a submission from Professor John Sweeney and others that really calls into question the methodology in carbon budget 3 and the failure to apply the Paris test, moving from reducing the requirement from 160 MtCO2eq to 151 MtCO2eq, a 9 MtCO2eq reduction. They suggest that moving from the Paris test in favour of temperature neutrality is the wrong approach. They propose that this budget not be adopted based on that. Will the Minister elaborate on why this approach was taken?