This week, we were reminded at COP15 that material use is now heading towards three times what nature can replenish in a year. I welcome yesterday’s publication of the Tánaiste’s enterprise White Paper, which stated that the transition to carbon neutrality and environmental soundness will be a central plank and that you do not see it as a threat to our competitiveness but rather as an opportunity. I would like to ask the Tánaiste if we have the policy tools to deliver this transition. Offshore wind is quoted as a once-in-a-generation opportunity. We have the second lowest circularity rate in Europe. We have a lot of ground to make up and I am interested to hear how we can develop the tools to make it happen quickly enough.

That is a very good question and like a lot of the best questions, it is hard to answer. It is fair to say that we have some of the tools but not all of them. That is what we will have to focus on now that we have the new enterprise White Paper. We set out the ambition very clearly in that regard. We need to move towards implementation, and we will do that as soon as possible.