Maureen O'Sullivan (Dublin Central, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Climate change is the biggest challenge facing us. If we do not get that right, we will see increasing poverty and hunger. What would the delegates identify as the most significant decision that came out of the Paris conference? What was the most disappointing decision? What decision, if it had been included, would have made the most difference?

There was much disappointment that the recent climate Bill did not go far enough. What do we need to do to bring it a stage further?

At the centre of everything is policy coherence. We are not paying enough attention to that because we are giving with one hand and taking with the other. I attended a recent event at Trinity College Dublin looking at the aftermath of the Paris conference. There is a need for rolling out that kind of meeting across Ireland. We think climate change belongs to somebody else and that it does not affect us. We do not see the implications of decisions we are making here on other places. Are the various groups planning to come together to have that sort of awareness campaign throughout the country?

What will be the effects of the outcome of the Paris conference on animal and plant life?