Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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I agree fully. A six-month review makes sense. It will include the reality that we are probably looking at stopping the extraction of peat for horticultural production and 50,000 houses being retrofitted per year in our climate action plan when we are only retrofitting a couple of hundred at the moment. We need 20,000 workers for that. We probably need a similar number of people to work on the re-wetting of bogs. I could go on. All of these things have material input into a proper just transition plan for the midlands. What Mr. Mulvey will find in the next six months is that it is almost impossible for us to be able to do that justice with the resources and timelines he has. I wish him well. I am not being personally critical but I do think the approach taken by the Government has put him in a very difficult position.