Today's report from the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, makes for truly alarming reading. Even in the unlikely event that we meet all of our goals in the climate action plan and see those policies fully implemented on time, we know our greenhouse gas emissions would only fall by 28% by 2030, just half of what is legally required in accordance with the Government's own laws. Labour has offered constructive engagement with the Government, we support the ambitious climate targets and along with most of our colleagues in the Opposition we have worked with the Government to ensure we will meet the targets. This report is alarming and I want to hear from the Taoiseach what the Government proposes to do about it in the short term. In particular we want to see that those sectoral emissions ceilings will be brought before us in the lifetime of this term of the Oireachtas. The Taoiseach said earlier that the sectoral emissions ceilings would be brought to Cabinet and the Dáil in the short term but we only have five sitting weeks left before the summer recess. We do not want to see this done at the eleventh hour; we want to have time as an Opposition to debate these issues.

I have made it clear that there is an enormous challenge ahead of us in climate change, which the EPA report identifies. We always made it clear as well that it would be the latter half of the decade before some of the decisions we have taken will bear fruit, including investments in a range of areas such as retrofitting, electric vehicles, EVs, and agricultural investments. The carbon tax revenue is building up very strongly, for example, and that is important to enable us to do the retrofitting, to implement fuel poverty protection measures and to do environmentally friendly farming. The carbon ceilings will be brought to Government shortly and I will come back to the Deputy on the timelines following discussions with the Minister.