Another major international report published today, from the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, calls out shamefully Ireland for its failure in green environmental issues. On many of the sustainable development goals we are doing well but in the red zone, where we are failing or going in the wrong direction, it cites our waste planning, waste management, climate action, ocean protection and global partnership arrangements. Shortly the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment will scrutinise the latest European legislation, which will compel us to start taking waste reduction seriously and mandates exactly the sorts of actions contained in the Waste Reduction Bill which we introduced and which this House supported a year ago.

At yesterday's meeting of the Dáil reform committee, we were reduced to talking to legal advisers about whether we would have to take a legal challenge against the Government in Europe for failing to live up to its environmental obligations.

The Deputy's time is up.

Will the Taoiseach not issue the money order and allow us to introduce or even just debate a waste-reduction Bill or does Fine Gael insist on dragging Ireland into the red zone-----

I thank the Deputy.

-----when it comes to looking after our environment? Yet again the Government has been called out and the country has been called out-----

Please, Deputy, your time is up.

-----for our lack of action. Will the Taoiseach allow us to debate how we might cut the waste?

There are many ways by which people can debate matters. The most obvious way to debate a matter is for the Deputy or his party to put a motion to the Dáil or Seanad.

Put a Bill down.

We have done that.

That is entirely in the Deputy's control. On the particular legislation he mentioned, I can only give him the answer I have given previously. Both the Minister, Deputy Naughten, and I have explained why we do not think a money message is appropriate on this occasion.

What is the answer?