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

I am a bit partisan as well, but I agree with the Minister. I acknowledge the work of the committee members, who are incredibly engaged on these issues and who turn up, week after week and multiple times a week, on these issues. I am happy to say there is broad political agreement on the direction of travel, if not the detail. Everybody approaches this is in good faith and sincerely. I think we are going in the right direction.

I am conscious that we are over time. I do not know if there are any final quick questions for the Minister before we finish up. As there are not, I thank the Minister for his time today and, indeed, for that of his officials who came in with him as well.

It has been an interesting session. We have established a pattern now of climate action plans being published, the EPA reporting in the summer publishing its projections, the Climate Change Advisory Council giving its take on how we are doing and bringing the Ministers in towards the end of the year prior to the next climate action plan. That is a pattern that is established and should continue in the years ahead.

It will be very difficult to achieve the targets. None of those were chosen lightly. They are stretch targets but it is fair to say that the process is a good one in terms of pushing the system towards achieving them. I think this session proves it, as did the two sessions we had last week, with the Ministers, Deputies Eamon Ryan and McConalogue. We can see the level of engagement with the issues and the challenges that we have in these sessions from the Ministers and, indeed, from the broader Oireachtas as well.

With that, because we have gone over time, I propose that we go into private session because we have some other business to deal with. I thank the Minister again for his time today.