Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----who held the climate action and housing Departments up until three years ago. The only reason I mentioned 2030 was that is the next date for targets. It is not that there are 2022, 2023 or 2026 targets. That is the way this is done. I am determined, in reaching our 2030 targets, that we are on the trajectory to do that right away. That is what I mean by that. It is not possible to reach 2030 targets next year but we can be on the trajectory to reach them by 2030 and that is where I want and expect us to be.

Deputy Martin is a bit cynical about action plans. Let us not forget that the Minister, Deputy Bruton, introduced the Government's first action plan, the Action Plan for Jobs, when he was the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. That action plan was to create 100,000 jobs and we actually created 200,000 jobs.

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