Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We will not be late in putting this forward. We will present it to the European Commission before the end of June, which is when it wants it by. This is the important document. Earlier, draft documents were not the final document. I would have preferred to have had the document earlier last autumn rather than in December. It has taken us time to scale up the modelling capability within our agencies and the Department, but we have done so. We have doubled the size of our Department to try to realise the climate ambition we have to meet. We have almost doubled the size of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, so there has been no shortage of resources to ensure we have the capability to do the work, but it is complex. It has taken some time but we are now on track to deliver it, along with the 26 other member states, by 31 June this year.