Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 10 July 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed)

11:00 am

Mr. Jim Scheer:

He did. That is great. We work with the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, to establish a baseline for energy supply and demand for Ireland using its latest macroeconomic modelling and assumptions about fuel prices. We work with a range of stakeholders to work on the input assumptions to that modelling. The trends that the committee saw there are clearly not on track for the longer-term target. What is not included in that are the more recent announcements via the national development plan. I am aware that the Government has announced an increased ambition on renewable electricity, increased ambition on renewable heat, higher blending rates for renewable transport and bigger ambition with regard to efficiency, which are all very welcome. We had to model the impact of those additional measures on that trend. That is the context for those data.