Some Deputies in the House seem to portray our need to move to a sustainable path to net zero as some sort of a mean-minded conspiracy by the Green Party. The reality is that we need sustainability in every sector. I put it to the Minister that we are falling behind in our enterprise sector in energy efficiency, waste elimination, reuse of materials, material use levels and so on. I acknowledge that we have launched some good individual initiatives. However, like St. Brendan's pioneering voyage on the Atlantic, they are not an admiralty driving our enterprise sectors to high levels of sustainability. I ask the Minister to undertake a drive to have a much higher take-up of audits and energy initiatives. Around 4% of enterprises are now taking up those. There also needs to be a cross-government strategy to adopt, in key sectors, a circular approach to the entire supply chain.

I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. He is a constant advocate, both in committee and in this House, for the circular economy. We are acting on this issue. In particular, this year we are targeting the biggest emitters in our economy. The IDA group of companies comprises more than 1,800 companies of which around ten of them represent the vast majority of emissions. Likewise, in Enterprise Ireland-supported companies, about 20 of their clients represent the vast majority of emissions. We are working directly with these companies. We will spend tens of millions of euro partnering with companies to help decarbonise their production systems. We are also looking at, as the Deputy said, increasing significantly the 4% or 5% we currently see adopting State-supported schemes. We want to make it much more widespread. I look forward to teasing through the issues in committee with the Deputy.