Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The difficulty is that we are going to have sectorial ceilings next week. According to the opening statement there is little information. It is very clear that it is not subject to the Oireachtas process and that the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine has a very minimal role. He is consulted in all of this. We heard from the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications that it will find a number that it can politically get through Cabinet without a single notion as to how it will be reached. We are at the point where we are depending on the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to have a plan. From its opening statement, if I am correct, it essentially says that the Department cannot see a way of reaching beyond 22%.