Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 February 2023

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)

Photo of Ossian SmythOssian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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The EPA is the statutory body responsible for keeping track of our national greenhouse gas, GHG, inventory. I know that estimates appear much earlier than their definitive figures, and those estimates appear from different Government agencies. It does take some time to see a final, definitive statement from the EPA as to how large our emissions were. The figures tend to be published certainly more than a year after the emissions have happened. Is the Deputy's general question why it takes so long to-----