Mr. Martin Finucane:

To clarify for Deputy Eamon Ryan, it is certainly not our intention to increase the amount of emissions or the use of peat in our system. By 2025 we will be out of coal. Before 2030 we will be out of peat. These two measures on their own will have the effect of halving the overall level of emissions.

In increasing the electrification of transport, particularly domestic vehicles, and the use of electrification in heating and cooling, particularly through the increased use of heat pumps, etc., there will be a bigger increase in the amount of electricity used by comparison with other sectors. Therefore, it is very important to us that the decarbonisation of electricity generation take place. There will be no point in using more electricity on the system unless its generation is increasingly decarbonised.