Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The plan will absolutely be before the House before the end of the summer break. I intend to have it published as quickly as possible. I cannot give a definitive date here and now but the Cabinet is meeting the week after the House rises and it is my intention to have the plan published in advance so that Ministers can have a copy of it to discuss at that full-day Cabinet meeting. I will publish the plan as soon as I can. As soon as I have the document available it will be published and laid before the Houses.

Deputy Stanley is one of the people who was here at the time but the timelines that are used in respect of the mitigation plan are unfortunate purely from a logistical point of view. That is why I want the reporting mechanism to come in after the budget. Many of the decisions we have to take must be taken in the budgetary context. We cannot take them in isolation. Many of the measures we have outlined in the mitigation plan such as the renewable heat incentive scheme and the renewable electricity support scheme will be included in the Estimates process as part of the budget and that is why it is important that in tandem with the budget taking place in October we would have the annual transition statement very soon after that.

We are establishing a national dialogue. It would be wrong to set everything in stone and then have a discussion about where we should go. Whatever comes up in the course of the dialogue also needs to be input into the plan, which is very much a living document.

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