Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is very important. It is of crucial importance.

Mind you, the modellers were criticised by Member of this House. We should not criticise unless the alleged guilty party is worthy of the criticism. There was a lot of important, back-breaking work done during that period. It was of major importance in predicting what was required, what direction our economy and health system were going and what action was being taken to provide further safeguards for the future.

I am a little uneasy on some of the statistics from elsewhere. I refer to one I saw in a headline, admittedly; I did not get a chance to read the article. I have my suspicions that somebody was trying to tell us that somebody made a mistake in the projections on climate change. They should not make those mistakes any more. They are entitled to make them but there are consequences for everybody else in the event that they do. I wonder whether this changes our strategy and future projections for climate change. I presume the statistics are trying to tell us that our situation is more serious and we have to decrease emissions to a far greater extent than we have. There are challenges in that. The question that automatically comes up then is whether we are the total culprits in this area. Is every other country in Europe and every other country with which we trade contributing to any extent or is it just that we are seen by somebody, somewhere as the total and absolute culprits when it comes to emissions?