Dr. Orla Kelleher:

I will come in briefly to pick up on a point made by Dr. Brennan. One of the most important things to prevent backsliding across Europe and in Ireland is the framework climate law, which is in existence and creates in law a long-term perspective. The long-term strategy does something similar because it puts in place a long-term policy for how we are going to achieve our 2050 targets.

Even if there is political change, the strategy creates that level of stability. If Ireland can get it right and takes the process seriously, it will give us political influence at EU level to push other member states to do similarly and to take the process as seriously.