Christopher O'Sullivan (Cork South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have one more question to ask the other panellists. To add to that, from my assessment of this talk of Barryroe being the saviour for our energy needs, apparently the success rate off the Irish coast in terms of drilling for oil and gas being so small is part of the reason it has not happened already. That has to be thrown into the argument as well.

On the international scale and what we are already seeing in Pakistan, where tens of millions have displaced, and in the Horn of Africa, where we are seeing extreme drought brought about by climate change - there is no denying that - there seems to be a news cycle where events like those in Pakistan happen, they make headlines, and maybe not even headlines sometimes, and then drop off the media. The same happens with the Horn of Africa, and the same with any of the events we have seen in Germany or with wildfires. What do we need to do to keep these events in the mind's eye of the public so that they do not become part of the news cycle where we see an extreme event and it drops off, it happens again and it drops off? How do we keep it there so that we remind people of the dire need to address climate change?