What the Deputy is proposing is to create even further inflation over and above what is there-----

-----all with a view to pursuing electoral advantage over a crisis that has been caused by a brutal regime.

First, I disagree with the Deputy's analysis of the Government's commitment to climate change. This Government has introduced some of the most significant climate change legislation. The targets we have set are unprecedented. They create a legal obligation on the Government and future governments, which is the first requirement. For example, we introduced the carbon tax, which gives resources both now and in the future to deal with fuel poverty and retrofitting. It gives the funding to enable retrofitting to happen…

In my view, the plan that we have put forward is transformative. It details what we must do to meet this challenge in terms of reducing overall greenhouse gas emissions by 51% by 2030. I agree with the EPA that implementation is key, in terms of the urgent implementation of climate plans and policies. The sectoral emissions ceilings will be brought before the Cabinet shortly by the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan. Without question, all sectors will have to play a role. Si…

It will be very shortly. The Minister will bring it before Cabinet and we will then bring it to the Dáil. He is adhering to the timeline he has set.

There is a whole range of targets in the climate action plan across the board-----

-----including for electric vehicles, retrofitting, riparian schemes in agriculture, which we have developed and will shortly be announced by the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Senator Hackett, in respect of the growing of trees adjacent to waterways and rivers and so on.

A lot of progress has been made.

A lot of hard work has gone into this in terms of the engagement, Department by Department, with the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications in respect of the ceilings each sector will have to achieve.

I said it would be shortly. When we bring it before the Government, we will bring it before-----

I have not been saying it for a long time.

The Minister has been very clear in outlining the various steps that have to be taken from the publication of the plan onwards.

I do not know what the Deputy means by my "actions to date". I will park that for a moment. In the first instance, she raised an issue in respect of an individual she identified, Mr. Shane Corr. It is not appropriate for me to discuss human resource issues regarding individuals. There are many aspects to that entire situation that merit an objective assessment. I will say no more than that on what appears to have transpired there, which some will have some misgivings about. I am talking about others who participate…

I do not have the powers to appoint an independent investigator to a local authority. There are established structures, first of all, within local authorities to deal with this. The Deputy should engage with the council and councillors herself, meet all the parties on the council, if that is her view, and hear what they are saying.

The Deputy admitted it was cross-party.

The Deputy admitted it was cross-party. I have made it very clear I do not support what transpired.

It does matter.

It does matter. If it does not, why is the Deputy raising it?

I have responded to the Deputy on the principle of this.

When I went to Wexford, in the presence of the radio station, I made it very clear-----