Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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I have two final questions on the ICNF. Each year, €2 billion is being invested, and the total contributions will be no more than €14 billion. The general scheme allows the Government to increase those contributions following a resolution passed by the Dáil, but they can never go above €14 billion. The Government is not going to meet its climate targets, so the reality is that money is going to be drawn down from the climate fund in 2025, I assume, which is allowed for under the legislation. In my view, we will not have situation where there will ever be €14 billion in the fund. If the Government brings a resolution, let us say in a bumper corporation tax year, to put more into the climate fund, can we put an extra €2 billion in it if €14 billion of contributions have already been paid into it, even if some of them have been withdrawn at that stage?