Professor Barry McMullin:

The question was about the review the Department was to carry out in terms of energy security and that is really important. However, Deputy Eamon Ryan said our current mitigation targets have lagged behind the science and need to be much more ambitious. If the review is carried out against the current targets it will give the wrong answers. The review will guide policy for ten, 15 or 20 years so that would be a very bad thing. One has to put the horse in front of the cart. We have to look at the level of ambition, then look at what the science is telling us and review energy security against that background.