In the context of build back better, yesterday I published a draft framework for a circular economy as a rapporteur which, I believe, should be a central spine on our climate action planning. I do not need to remind the Minister that Ireland has 22% more waste than the rest of the EU. Our food waste would be the equivalent in climate impact to 1 million vehicles being taken off the road if we could eliminate it. Two thirds of our plastic is not recyclable. I ask the Minister if he agrees with me that rethinking our supply chains from the start or initial design to the end of life is crucial to delivering on our ambitions. Does the Minister believe we should now set bold objectives, such as halving food waste within five years rather than ten years and halving residual black-bin waste by 2030? Does he agree that we should develop sectoral roadmaps so that these can be realised effectively?

I absolutely agree. I look forward to reading that report.

I agree we must be more ambitious for a variety of reasons. First, we are close to the limit in terms of what we can manage under the existing system - landfill, incineration or other mechanisms. We must dramatically reduce the amount of waste and increase the amount of recycling.

When Mr. John Kerry spoke at the Dublin Climate Dialogues yesterday, he reiterated a point we are hearing increasingly, which is that we are not doing enough on climate globally. We are not meeting the scale of the challenge and we must radically increase ambition. That will come from the climate Bill but it will also come from the waste action plan. This job is a job where one takes a baton from a predecessor and then one manages it and passes it on. I was fortunate in this instance to take the baton from Deputy Bruton with the waste action plan in train. It was a good approach. It worked with the multiplicity of stakeholders. Industry has bought in. They will have a huge responsibility. We have that plan. We have the 200 actions in it. It is a matter of delivering those. I agree with the Deputy. I will look to put further ambition in if the Deputy's report indicates where that is possible.