Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 September 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion

2:00 pm

Mr. Mark Griffin:

The national development plan includes a whole suite of measures across a whole range of sectors amounting to somewhere in the region of €115 billion, of which we have managed to corner about 20% of the spend. I believe the prudent course is, as we have set out, to assess the impact of the national development plan measures and the flexibilities that are included in the effort-sharing regulation and the impact of each individual measure in the national mitigation plan and then draw conclusion as to whether that will fully meet the 2030 target - I do not expect it will. We will see then what additional measures we need to bring forward, whether it is in the nature of further investment, or regulation, or taxation to plug the gaps that will arise on the various targets we have set out.