Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The problem is, in the last two budgets when energy pricing was lower, he did not support carbon taxes at that point anyway. So in other budgets when we did not have the level of energy pricing that we have now, Deputy Doherty did not support a change in carbon tax in those budgets either. When the generations to come look back on a world that is going to be marked by the movement of people due to environmental reasons such as flooding, and summers that are hotter than we can imagine, they will ask which side of the great debate one was on. Deputy Doherty is on the side of the debate that says it does not want to take any decisions that are capable of delivering change even when that change is difficult.