Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I asked about the level of the likely fines and was told that the annual fine from 2021 onwards would be €600 million, which is a significant amount of money. We are on the wrong trajectory to 2030, never mind to 2020 because we will have missed the targets to that year. We are facing a significant fine each year from 2021. In that context, what strikes me, given that there was still flexibility in the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, is the level of ambition to make sure we will not end up paying these fines.