Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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The EPA report tells us that even with everything the Government is planning to do and with all the additional measures, we will still be miles away from where we need to be legally in the context of our national and EU targets and even further away from where we should be in terms of the science. That is the bottom line. It is a damning indictment not just of the Government in general but also of the Green Party in particular.

Its reason for going into Government and signing up to all these things which it signed up for was because of the urgency of the climate crisis, yet it is continuing to sit in a Government which is failing. Every report we get says we are failing.