Last week, the Taoiseach made a fine speech in Belém. He spoke about the need to listen to the science, tell the truth to citizens and for urgent action to meet climate targets. He said that leaders must lead. This was at COP30. The problem is that he does not take his own advice when he is back at home. He leads a Government which is on track to miss our legally binding targets by a country mile. As it currently stands, we are not even on track to hit half of our 51% target. The Government is allowing the big polluters to call the shots, bending over backwards to the tech companies and projecting that the data centres may use up to 30% of our energy by the end of this decade. It is in favour of new fossil fuel infrastructure, the dirtiest fossil fuel infrastructure possible, in the form of liquefied natural gas, LNG, terminals. We need drastic action as opposed to just words abroad. Is the Taoiseach still committed to the 51% target and, if so, will he launch new additional measures that are needed?

Yes, we are, but these are legally binding targets that both the Government and Europe have imposed. I would argue that the last Government did more than previous Governments in moving this forward and step-changing the nature of the response, but it is very challenging. I disagree with the Deputy's analysis. He disparagingly referred to tech companies. Tech companies in this country put bread on the table of many families. We are talking about workers here. We are not in thrall to any company or corporate headquarters but I do value the thousands of jobs-----

They wrote the budget.

-----in the country in such companies, be they indigenous or multinational. The Deputy just dismissed them.

Buy them.

It is as if work does not matter.

Buy them.

Work matters. Is Deputy Murphy saying to the workers that they should be laid off or that we should reduce the investment in the companies?

No, I asked the question about the-----

We will deal with it. In terms of the energy reserve, the Deputy is also wrong. It is a security imperative that we develop an LNG facility. We are dependent on two connectors, which are vulnerable from a security perspective.

I thank the Taoiseach.

I know the Deputy does not want to see any evil in terms of Russia's designs and so on, but that is a problem.

The next question is from Deputy Collins.

Is the Taoiseach going to launch additional measures?

I call Deputy Michael Collins.

Is he serious about the 51% target?

Deputy Murphy, your time is up.