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

Absolutely. I hope we will shortly be able to consider such a review mechanism in the context of a new climate action Bill which will amend the 2015 Act. We hope to put in place a framework of three successive five-year budgets which will cover the coming years and further iterations of the climate action plan. These can be reviewed on a rolling basis, just as the Deputy suggests, with reporting mechanisms that allow us to look at how targets are being reached at a sectoral level. This iterative, long-term process, which sets out targets for the next five, ten and 15 years, is where we need to go. It is the framework within which the new economy is going to arise. As I said earlier, we have comparative competitive advantage in many areas. In the case of agriculture, in particular, we have the potential to develop a more environmentally friendly approach and to secure a premium for our agriculture produce which will allow us to pay our farmers better and to retain and restore the family farm.

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