On Tuesday, Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Teresa Ribera told journalists that the effort to reform the Energy Charter Treaty will fail to ensure alignment with the Paris Agreement and the objectives of the European Green Deal. On the same day five young Europeans, went before the European Court of Human Rights to challenge their governments' membership of the Energy Charter Treaty as a dangerous obstacle to action in regard to the climate crisis. This treaty protects fossil fuel investors and will prevent a transition away from fossil fuels and ensure huge compensation pay-outs while we are trying to achieve our climate targets. In the face of climate breakdown and the threat of this treaty to the Paris Agreement and the objectives of the European Green Deal will the Irish Government join Spain in seeking an end to the Energy Charter Treaty that is blocking climate action and to any other treaty that will also block climate action?

To be frank, I am not fully apprised of the detail of that treaty. It probably falls under the remit of the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, so I will make sure that he knows it was raised and I will ask him to come back to Deputy Costello directly.