In a month's time, Irish delegates will be sitting down with their international counterparts at the UN Conference of the Parties, COP26, in Glasgow to face what is the greatest global challenge of our generation. We will be sitting down with some countries that are emitting less than one tenth of the greenhouse gas emissions of developed countries like our own. Does the Minister expect the Irish climate action plan will be published before then and will we be making a contribution in solidarity with those countries that face much greater difficulties in addressing their development needs in a sustainable way?

I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. I acknowledge the outstanding work that he has done in this area over a number of years. The Government will be represented by the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, at COP26. He is finalising the climate action plan, which is anticipated to be brought to the Government in October and published at that point. I will discuss with the Minister the points the Deputy made about developing countries, the challenges they face and what role Ireland can play as a country that is facing significant challenges itself but that has a plan and a committed government in terms of addressing the issues, building on work that has been done previously.