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

I welcome our guests and thank them for their presentations. A number of issues come to mind, including the recent flooding, not only here but in numerous locations throughout the world. These serve to highlight the fact climate change is taking place and we must embrace it, recognise it and do what must be done. The Paris meeting will have been good if the participating countries which signed up to the agreement put in place the necessary measures to meet its requirements. This is the crucial issue. We have the capacity to do it in this country with regard to agriculture and energy if we decide to do so.

I happen to be one of the people who is committed to alternative and renewable energy. Recently, in my constituency thousands of leaflets poured out calling on people - I think there might have been something similar in an adjoining constituency-----