It is almost a year since the Joint Committee on the Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht held hearings during the pre-legislative stage of the climate change legislation. We are still waiting for the legislation. When will it be published?

When is it likely to be enacted? Will the sectoral plans be published at the same time as the legislation and, if not, when will they be published?

It has gone through the pre-legislative phase and it is now being drafted - the report has come back on it. The targets and objectives set here both for 2020 and for 2030 will be very challenging. We need to be able to work backwards from the 2030 situation in order that whoever is in government from 2020 onwards will not be faced with very significant fines because, in my view, of the way that this was treated before so that targets were set which were very difficult, if not unachievable, for the country to measure up to.

When will it be published?

We have started drafting. I will advise the Deputy on the progress being made on it. It went through the pre-legislative stage already.

When will the climate action and low-carbon development Bill come before the House?

The Taoiseach has just answered that.

That is what I was just talking to Deputy Catherine Murphy about.

Right. Okay.

That is equality now, is it not? Deputy Catherine Murphy was first in and she got the answer.