Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

The difficulty is if we do not make those short-term changes, the impact will be much greater. It will be much harder to do at a later point. We backloaded a lot of the measures. When we are talking about the different pathways what I have the greatest difficulty with is that it is very difficult for those in the agricultural sector, for example, to see what changes they need to make because those pathways are not set out for them. Looking at the climate action plan for 2024, I have added up the abatement potential and it is far below what we expect and need to see from the sector. Professor Ó Gallachóir mentioned that the current policies and actions are not sufficient. What additional things could be done to make sure that we are ambitious enough? It is highly problematic that our climate action plan, which is meant to be setting out this pathway, is not ambitious enough to meet our targets. Are there additional things that he thinks we could be putting in that would give us those wins?