Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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There are many different accounts and timelines to measure from. Should it be measured from 1990, 2005 or 2018? This Government sets its targets from 2018 because that was the most recent year in which information was available, on the establishment of the Government, on the drafting of the climate law. Going back to what I said earlier, in the end, we are best to always rely on EPA data, whatever way it wants to adjust it. EPA data is independent and is done to the international rules-based systems. Ultimately, that is where we have to account to under the UNFCCC. It is through the UN accounting reporting systems. Whatever changes happen in that system, as Mr. Kierans said about the rebalancing the EPA does as part of UN reporting systems, we have to accept that. That is its role. We live within the accounting rules it provides. They are UN rules, effectively.