David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am sorry, but there would have been an anticipation that the Department would have reduced the emissions in 2018 because the State signed up to international targets and obligations, not yesterday or last year but many years ago. For many years we have had targets, following on from the agreement at Kyoto and other European Union targets as well. Targets have been set for this country. The problem that I see is that the targets are very macro and long term but there are no real targets for each individual Department other than over a long period. Mr. Gleeson must revisit that. There needs to be much tighter year-on-year targets so that we can see what has been done.