Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 April 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Implementation of National Mitigation Plan: Discussion

3:00 pm

Dr. Eimear Cotter:

It is a question of timing. It is a bit of a boring answer in that we produce our projections in a certain point in time. We can take into account policies and measures developed to a certain extent. Where something is newer or at a pilot phase, the impact of that is more difficult to work into the numbers and analysis. As policies and measures we have heard about, such as the warmth and well-being scheme, become more developed and embedded we can work the impact of those into the projections. It is a technical answer to the issue.