Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome Ms Justice Laffoy and thank her for all her work to date. I will be brief because I know we will go into everything in the next couple of months. In the 26 hours during which the assembly discussed climate action, was there much discussion about wind energy and the fact that wind farms, particularly industrial wind farms, have divided communities the length and breadth of the country? I know it relates more to rural dwellers but did this issue come up?

My second question concerns societal acceptance or a change of mind, which Ms Justice Laffoy touched on in her introductory remarks. Great work has been done in schools, particularly primary schools, with the Green Flag initiative. We are also familiar with the saying "reduce, reuse, recycle" and are all trying to play our small part. It was a huge disappointment to see that 10 kg of rubbish per person was generated at Electric Picnic at the weekend. We all saw it on the news. How far away are we from getting people to accept that climate change is a reality and we must make changes?