Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I understand. We need to go forward, working together. I am not about divide and conquer, even with carbon tax. Climate change is the biggest risk for us. Over the past two and a half years on this committee, I have not had the sense that Departments are taking it seriously. It is not just the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. I do not have that sense. It does not appear here as a risk. Brexit appears as a risk, not climate change, in the Department's financial statements. Will that change? Does the Department consider climate change to be a risk? On the 35 actions, we are limited. What programme will be rolled out on the 35 actions, when will that be and so on? We had Teagasc before us at one stage and it stated clearly that the trajectory was going the wrong way. It said that publicly. Teagasc is not particularly radical in its statements and I would have thought that one was a cause not only for reflection but serious action. That did not happen. We will be monitoring the 35 actions closely.