Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have a very basic question. It is not even about the individual sectoral targets. For many of us who do not spend the vast majority of our working time dealing with, for example, climate and emissions reductions, when we hear words such as “budget”, we think of financial budgets. We think of the allocation of money and how that money is divvied out among a set of State agencies, who then spend it.

My question is more to try to conceptually understand how there will be a macro target. There will be sectoral targets. How will they then relate to the work of Government, Departments, agencies like the SEAI, and other third actors, public or private? It is just trying to understand that, even without reference to any particular sector. An agency like the SEAI, which is involved in this every day, probably has a better conceptual understanding of how that will be shaped or what it will look like.