In January, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government indicated his intention to publish a climate change Bill. He said he would bring the heads of such a Bill to the Joint Committee on the Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht in the second quarter of this year. Can the Taoiseach say what progress has been made in this regard? Can the committee look forward to receiving the heads of the Bill on time?

It is a while away yet. It is not required until next year. In the meantime, as the Deputy knows, we have signed on for particular climate change targets for 2020, including low carbon emissions levels. I have requested each Department to produce its own sectoral roadmap by February or March next year, indicating their steps towards achieving these overall targets. It is impossible to set down what one's actual targets will be from 2020 to 2050, which is a bit far ahead of us. Ireland's opportunity to produce so much more food in future must be taken into account in the balance of how to get this right. The legislation will be introduced next year.