Mr. Conor Minogue:

The targets are extremely challenging. Marie Donnelly, chair of the Climate Change Advisory Council, was in here recently setting out the budgets for the next decade. Looking at the CCAC's figures, it is going to be extremely challenging. The decarbonisation of industry needed in 2025 is about 33%, which is a reduction that has never been seen in the history of greenhouse gas emissions reporting. What we are saying is the enabling framework to allow decarbonisation of that scale is not in place. We have many supports available through the agencies - the Sustainable Energy Authority if Ireland, SEAI, Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland - but there is nothing at present that can deliver the scale of emissions reduction required. We see a role for a multitechnology, high-value support scheme like those currently in place in Germany and the Netherlands and emerging in other member states.