Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Yes. We cannot deny the science on this. The facts are that we have very high emissions per capita. If we look at the reasons behind that, we have a very large agricultural sector, we have a very dispersed transport system from a model of planning and housing that has embedded over the last 60 or 70 years, and we also have a very high dependence on fossil fuels. You cannot deny the science the EPA presents. What are the solutions? We switch to renewables and away from fossils, we do what the national planning frameworks says to get better balanced regional development, compact development and low-carbon development, and agriculture and land use must change. It will be change for the better because we will have to pay the young farmers and families to provide some of the nature-based solutions that are going to be part of this change.