Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I have a few thoughts to which the witnesses might respond. Building on the questions asked by Senator O'Reilly and Deputy Bruton, there is a challenge in bringing the people with us. It can be somewhat infuriating that we obsess over targets and where we want to get to, and much less about how we are going to get there. There seems to be a deficit in bridging the gap, politically and socially, between the targets and where we are now. We are going to have sessions , hopefully before Christmas, on climate communications. The committee feels that there is a very important role to be played in that regard. In the few minutes we have left, I would like to hear from the witnesses about where they feel more effort should be made in terms of bringing the people with us. The very simplest of climate action projects in this country seem to hit a brick wall. I do not need to list them, they are well-known at this point. They hit a brick wall because they represent an immediate inconvenience to the public. There may be a medium- to long-term benefit to the projects, but getting that message across is very difficult. So many have fallen by the wayside because people have mobilised and have said they do not want the inconvenience. I ask the witnesses for their thoughts on how we might bridge that deficit in the few minutes that we have.