Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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No. It is anything but brave decision-making. The children will pay the price for the lack of action by this Government. That is the truth. The Minister can try to lull people to sleep and pretend that everything is going to be okay, but it is not. We are heading towards an absolute catastrophe and the Minister is not telling the truth to people. The EPA report tells the truth to people. Let me get to my question. The private jets issue reveals the whole thing. Private jets are enormously polluting. The Minister understands it. They are approximately 16 times more polluting than travel by commercial flights. The vast majority of people on this planet will never be on a private jet in their lifetimes. It is a tiny minority of people. The Minister just said that his candidates running for election are campaigning on the basis of campaigning for banning private jets but when it comes to a vote in the Dáil and banning private jets, he will not commit to do it. There were false promises when he was in opposition and now when he is in government, he just gives up on most of them.