Professor John FitzGerald:

What I am saying is: the advice is that the research is done. There is a series of papers out there. We have the information.

We made a decision that we would not take a position on how the money should be used. Our mission is to advise Government, including the Oireachtas, on how we can decarbonise at minimum cost and getting into distributional issues is beyond our remit and is the committee's remit, as the Oireachtas.