Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

I will start on the Minister’s point that this can be done. I agree 100% that it can be done. I am not a climate doom-monger. It think it is possible. It is important not to prettify what is actually happening, however. If we want to do it, we have to deal with the actual reality and the actual reality is that in every single sector we are off track. If we continue with the plan as we have been going we will miss the targets by a significant degree. What we need to be seeing from the Minister in his capacity here in terms of the particular sectors he is responsible for, and the other Ministers we meet, is new plans and new initiatives to make up for what we are now behind on because of the failures over the past couple of years. Does the Minister accept that we cannot just continue with the plans that have been laid out or we will end up missing the targets by a great deal?