Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 17 September 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy
Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Naoise Ó Muirí (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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I thank all the witnesses for coming in. They were invited in by the members to provide a perspective on what the CCAC put forward and they have done that, without a doubt. I will recap, in my layperson's terms, what the witnesses have raised. First was temperature neutrality as a model and methodology. It effectively shields methane, for want of a better description. Using 2020 as a reference year was also mentioned. Categories like aviation and shipping being left out of the model may not be an Irish-only issue but, nonetheless, it is an issue. Those seem to be, by my layman's reading, the three main issues.
The transcript of this meeting will go online. I hope the witnesses are all okay with that. I thank them for coming in.