Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am not really talking about any specific plan. It seems that our list of criteria, to which we must have regard, is getting longer. We have short-lived gases versus long-lived gases and a need to measure our timescales over five-year budgets or 50-year perspectives. It seems that we are putting more straws on the camel. I am not saying that biodiversity should be the straw that is dropped, but speaking generally, how should we try to deal with this? Should we have some sort of catch-all statement of what the world ought to be like and expect the Climate Change Advisory Council and Government to take that into account, rather than a list of 40 items that must be considered?