John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)

Not far off it. The movie was not far off it. The forest fires in places Los Angeles is a real answer to that but a wealth class feels it can escape it.

We have to create new markets. We may have to travel farther to sell our goods and we may have to import goods from farther away and create goals, environments and rules that facilitate that in a climate-friendly way.

Mercosur is for another day but I would happily debate it with them. There is a continent down there. The Chinese are fishing out the south Pacific. There are no rules. There are no treaties. It has been somewhat ignored as a continent. I certainly see signs from there that they want to become part of the world, that they want to become engaged with the western world and that some countries, and some of the representatives, look at European values and those kind of liberal democratic values as precious and shrinking. We should not throw the baby out with the bath water.