Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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The Minister raised the point about Dún Laoghaire and the living streets, or whatever project it was in Dún Laoghaire. He raised that with me in the Dáil before and I went to check it. We have one councillor in Dún Laoghaire and she voted in favour of that project.

As for offshore wind, we are in favour of the development of offshore wind but, in this case, there are real biodiversity issues. We have a climate crisis and a biodiversity crisis. There is not just one planetary limit, there are seven, at least. We cannot cross all of these. In doing one thing, we need to not cause another ecological crisis.

I will put it back to the Minister. I note and welcome the fact the Green Party's MEP candidates are running for the European Parliament on a platform, among other things, of banning private jets. Obviously, private jet emission will not have an impact here but it clearly has an impact on our globe. We have a Private Members' Bill, which has gone past First Stage and which we are going to introduce on Second Stage to do precisely that, namely, ban private jets. Will the Minister and his Green Party colleagues be voting in favour of that Bill to ban private jets?