Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 25 May 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Reduction of Carbon Emissions of 51% by 2030: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Dara Lynott:
It is within a policy choice of achieving net zero by 2050 and 70% renewable energy by 2030. These are all policy choices and they can be as expansive or restrictive as one wishes. I am just saying the industry will respond to those policy choices and incentives coming from those policy choices. It would be very difficult for industry to plough its own furrow outside of policy or incentive choices because it just would not make any economic sense.