Ms Marie Donnelly:

Deputy Ryan will be aware that the Government yesterday published the fourth and final report of the Climate Action Plan 2021 actions. The report identified that approximately 80% of the actions had been implemented. Unfortunately, our emissions are still not going down. The carbon budget started in 2021. Our first carbon budget was 295 million tonnes of CO2. We have not seen a reduction of emissions in 2021 or 2022. Unless we get very significant emissions reductions in 2023, it is going to make carbon budget achievement by 2025 extremely difficult. The council has been saying this and we are saying it more and more loudly now because we need urgent high-impact measures from the Government. We do not need 600 actions in a climate action plan. We need 20 or 25 high-impact actions and we need them to be implemented right now.