David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am from Midleton, which suffered devastating floods last October. It was an awful time. The points made about climate change and biodiversity really strike a chord with me in a big way. I am also worried about rising sea levels, which have also been in the news over the last couple of days. I brought up this issue in the Dáil on a few occasions. The polar icecaps are melting, and rising seas do not go back down again. My part of the country is particularly vulnerable in this regard.

This brings me to adaptation measures. I fully agree with decarbonisation and so forth, but we also have to think about adaptation. A great deal of damage has already been done. We will see the consequences of this in the years and decades to come. Are any of the companies looking at the issue of adaptation?