We are now in the last week of February and, as yet, the climate action plan for 2025 has not been published. Under the climate action Act, the Minister has to present the climate action plan annually. The draft action plan for 2025 was ready for publication in December last year but Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael took a political decision not to publish it until the new Government was formed.

The section in the programme for Government dealing with the climate action plan gives us a sense of the Government's ambition on climate. It actually talks about placing a focus on a smaller number of strategic and impactful actions. Is that what is happening? Is the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, going through the original draft and actually cutting a few chunks out of it so there is a smaller number of actions, as per the Government's own programme for Government? When will the Taoiseach publish the climate action plan for 2025?

I have noticed, since the Government was formed, there has been a deliberate attempt at trying to present the Government as somehow rowing back on climate change and this is going to be the narrative now, whether it is true or not. The Deputy is articulating that idea, even though the Government and the programme for Government commits very strongly to the legal framework governing climate and to the measures we have already embarked upon and that were decided upon by the previous Government.

I notice the Taoiseach is not answering the question.

I am. The Deputy-----

There is nothing new there.

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Allow the Taoiseach to answer.

Thank you. There has been no resiling by Government from the climate change objectives of this country and the climate plan will be published - my understanding is that it will be in the next number of weeks. We did not deliberately not publish it. The outgoing Government and the Green Party did try to railroad a whole load of things through before the interregnum period; that would not have been proper. The climate action plan-----

It is ready to go. Why can it not be published?

-----is something for the entire Oireachtas to give due consideration to and have a genuine debate about it, not something that is rammed through at the death of a Government.