Today, the Government will set out its climate action plan and we wait to see the detail of what will be announced. I put it to the Minister that there is little point in waving the big stick at Irish farmers if the EU market is about to be flooded by environmentally damaging Brazilian beef in the coming years. The first step the Government should take in bringing farmers on board with a more sustainable food production is to reject the EU-Mercosur trade deal. It is bad for Ireland and it is bad for the planet.

It is a trade deal that is, at its core, a glaring contradiction to the policies and politics set out by the European leaders this week. It fundamentally undermines climate action targets and actively encourages a hyper-intensive farming model that pushes out family farmers. Will the Minister commit, on what should be a good one for climate action, not to sign up to this bad deal? Will he inform the European Commission that Ireland rejects the Mercosur trade deal?

The only person or party talking about a stick and Irish farming is Deputy Doherty and Sinn Féin. I have made clear, as has the Government, that we want to co-operate and engage with our farming communities because we know they are central to the change that has to be made. The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy McConalogue, is well aware of the concerns that our farming community have about Mercosur and the impact the deal might have on the viability and future of the farming community. He will continue to engage with our farmers and the Commission on this.

On the very day the climate action plan is being published, given the role of Sinn Féin in acknowledging and voting for a climate crisis, I look forward to hearing from it later in the day regarding its support for the climate action plan the Government will publish. I also look forward to hearing how it can acknowledge there is a climate crisis while continuing to be against any measure that looks to make a meaningful difference.

Does the Government support Mercosur now?