Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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I do not dispute the good intentions of the people in the IEA but the figures that are most frightening, as Mr. Gould said, are that 30 years ago, more than 70% of our energy system was reliant on fossil fuels and today the figure is 70%. We have known that for 30 years. We knew what Jim Hansen said 30 years ago was pretty accurate but we have done nothing about that. That is scary because the scale of this change is difficult. We need to up our game by a factor of ten to do what we must do.