Dara O'Brien

Just to correct you, respectfully, I haven't been sitting on it.

I received the report in July of this year.

It's three departments.

It's my own, it's Agriculture, it's the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government.

I actually said in response to a question in the Dáil the week before last that I want to publish before Christmas.

It's a really good piece of work.

And I agree with you that it's important that it's published, that it's out there and people can see the report itself.

But more importantly, what comes from it.

It's not just within my gift to publish it, I'd say as well.

There are two other government departments as well.

I can actually tell you that I want to publish before Christmas and I intend that it will be

Maybe I might give the positive side to it, if I may.

I think if you look back to 2018, actually, the EPA were projecting that by 2030, we would only see a 1% reduction in emissions, 1%.

And actually, the projections last year versus this have actually shown a marked improvement in certain areas, and that's good.

Now, I've been very straight with people as well.

It's going to be very difficult to hit that 2030 target.

But what you see within the figures that the EPA have produced independently is we again have been able to decouple economic growth from emissions.

And we're seeing continued emissions reductions, particularly across energy.

transport some really significant changes.

Actually, you'll see a big shift year on year on that with regard to the projections, particularly because of the acceleration of EVs and electrification of cars.