Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats)
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In that regard, what the EPA is saying is that it has not modelled everything because the Government has not actually set down enough information or given the supporting policies for it. One of the measures the EPA talks about is the increases in petrol and diesel about which the Minister spoke. However, that information has not been put down. That was not included because there is no information on it. There is no pathway to the implementation of embodied carbon in construction. There is no pathway with regard to agriculture. Essentially, what the EPA is saying is that Government may talk a lot about these measures, but it is not actually putting enough information down for them to be implemented. It is not putting the pathways down or giving the indications as to how it is going to implement these policies. This is a huge problem because time is ticking by. This Government is nearly over, and after four and a half years in Government, even simple things like the roll-out of the infrastructure for EVs, while very welcome, but my goodness, how did it take four and a half years to get something so simple down when we have a target of 1 million EVs on the road? The infrastructure has taken four and a half years.