Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank Deputy Whitmore and I thank the Minister. We are scheduled to finished just now. I thank the Minister and his officials for coming in today even if the officials could not speak. When the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy McConalogue, was in earlier I commended him on the work he is doing in agriculture to steer the very difficult big ship. I also commend the Minister, Deputy Ryan, on what he is doing. A huge amount is being done but it is not easy and there is a lot more to do as. In the committee today we did get a sense of what is happening and what needs to happen. I believe I speak for colleagues when I say we can look forward to the new climate action plan when it is published in a few weeks' time and engaging with that and having the Minister in again next year to look at that and to monitor progress as we go. I wish the Minister well in Dubai at COP 28. The Minister is travelling there tomorrow and hopefully we will get good news from that in the week ahead.