Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats)
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I thank Professor McMullin for his contribution.

I have a lot of questions but the first thing jumping out at me is the paragraph of the submission relating to aviation emissions and the fact that there is now legal advice that national emissions budgets should take aviation into account. This is the first time this committee has heard that. When discussing budgets, it has always been very much a matter of saying aviation is an international competency, that it will be accounted for in other ways and that we are not going account for it in our budgets. Could Professor McMullin go into that a little more for us because there is quite a discussion on lifting the cap at Dublin Airport and whether this would actually be in compliance with the climate Act and our obligations under the Paris Agreement?