Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 September 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy

Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Photo of Malcolm NoonanMalcolm Noonan (Green Party)
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My final questions for this round are for Professor McMullin. Earlier, he called for an open and independent peer review of the appropriate methodologies for the assessment of carbon budgets. Does he have a view on how that should take place? Is it unusual to have to call for that, given that we have been presented with a proposed budget? How does Professor McMullin anticipate that we might carry out such a review?