Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 4 July 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
General Scheme of the Gas (Amendment) Bill 2022: Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications
Mr. Noel Regan:
Yes is the short answer. The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland was designing the methodology so that each public sector body would have its own carbon emissions target for the direct emissions that it effects. In the same way that we have energy insufficiency published reports, as the Deputy said, we have the equivalent for emissions. It is not in our area of responsibility but that is being designed, as I understand it. They also have a public sector mandate. It is broader than just their emissions; it is how they work and behave. It includes small things like making sure there are cycling facilities, etc. They have that too, and they are very much focused on their direct emissions.