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:

There was a report in the newspaper that was a bit unfair to what he actually said, because I listened to the transcript of the interview and he never said that.

On the circular economy, I agree with the Deputy that there are things there that may well feature in the national energy and climate plan. The important thing is that when the national development plan was published, we had not yet finished the negotiations on the renewable energy directive. We were still in trilogue with the European Parliament on targets.