Lynn Boylan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

My second question refers to a circular from the Minister's Department that went out to all Departments on the offsetting of emissions associated with official air travel. You then pay into a scheme which is a system offsetting the carbon emissions from that. I personally have an issue with offsetting as they are indulgences in my opinion. That aside, is the Minister using an outside independent body to verify that he is in fact offsetting, or is he setting the price for the offset of emissions? There are organisations who would verify that the offsets are actually offsetting the emissions.