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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Implementation of National Mitigation Plan: Discussion (24 Apr 2018)

Brian Stanley: ...-shoot our 2020 targets. What specific actions are being planned by the Department to accelerate a reduction in our greenhouse gas emissions? In regard to the SEAI, leaving aside waste generation, power generation is where the lion's share of our emissions come from. In terms of the move from large-scale generation to micro-generation from renewable sources such as solar, prices in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Implementation of National Mitigation Plan: Discussion (24 Apr 2018)

Brian Stanley: ...in fact we should be at 20% of it. Every time we raise the point, we hear about what is planned and the €21 billion and so on. The problem is the slow pace. We are not even off the blocks on solar power. We have not even got into offshore wind yet. We are still messing around with public transport. I heard the ambitious figures for electric cars but, my God, we are making a...