Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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I am sorry; is there not a profound difference between the two things? If the EU continues to measure it the way it is, we are locked into a system that does not recognise the very significant value, from an Ireland Inc. and global Inc. point of view, of managing to reduce methane, particularly in agriculture, which is the biggest generator of it. If we continue to undervalue that then it is not surprising that we will face resistance in trying to get change, whereas, as I understand it, if we value it in the way the IPCC is now recognising its profoundly different value, which is that a reduction in biogenic methane cools the planet, the best we could do if we even reduce transport to nil would be to stop it getting worse. Those are two profoundly different outcomes. Are we not missing a very real opportunity here to change the debate as well as deliver a better outcome?