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

Going around to every council in the country, the first question I ask is "How many social houses have we retrofitted this year and could we do more next year?"

I wish to make a point about land use, because it is very important. I believe the land use review s the most important of all the elements in the climate action plan. It is a highly complex optimisation. We must optimise for rural development, which is to be social progress as much as anything else, the storage of carbon, the restoration of biodiversity and the reduction of water and air pollution. That is a whole-system approach, where we look at the complex interactions in land-use, but it must have the first element in the mix, which is it has to be good for the Irish family farm, for Irish rural communities and Irish rural life. We must make sure that we pay people for those solutions in land use that we are going to need, so that we live in a beautiful island with a very stable and secure population.