Kevin Humphreys (Dublin South East, Labour)
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807. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the action he will take following the publication of the EPA report in April 2013 on our greenhouse gas emissions which said that Ireland was at significant risk of not meeting our EU 2020 targets even under the best-case scenario; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35167/13]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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As I indicated at a meeting with the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht on 10 July 2013 , while, under EU law, Ireland faces a challenging greenhouse gas emissions reduction target for 2020, one of the priorities in initiating the policy development process in which we are now engaged was to identify and adopt the additional measures necessary to ensure 2020 compliance, and to progress our own agenda on effective transition to a competitive low-carbon economy in 2050. I look forward to receiving the Committee’s report in due course and I will consider it fully in finalising future climate policy.