Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I have learned a lot here today. Although I suspected, from reading about it and from the various submissions, that the representatives and captains of the oil and gas industry have their heads in the sand and do not really get that the environment and planet is in serious trouble and that we therefore have to move rapidly and decisively to change the way we do business, the questioning and back and forth here this evening has really proven that to be the case. They do not get it. They want to continue with business as usual and they are prepared to put the profits their companies make before the interests of the planet and its people.