Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I accept that. I had not realised that the European regulations were only drafted in 2017. That is the timeframe one would expect.

May I ask one last question? Moving away from the quantum of resources, the Minister's Department is also unusual in that many of the environmental responsibilities are divided up between the former Ministry in the Custom House - that is, the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government - and his current Department. It is sometimes hard to understand the dividing line as to why certain environmental issues are contained within the Minister's Department and others are still contained in the Custom House. Has this transition worked, to his mind, or is the Minister finding it hard to know himself where the line of responsibility is when it comes to environmental management?