Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats)

I want to go back to the original issue for today and the change in the methodology. When we raised this with the chair of the CCAC when she was last before the committee, she said that the change in the methodology was chosen because the CCAC was adopting newer techniques being used by the IPCC and that a more comprehensive, structured approach that is being used. I would be interested in the witnesses' comments on that.

Also, with this change, and different sectors will have different carbon budgets, what will the impacts - positive or not - be? What sector will be impacted most by this change in the methodology?