Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion

11:00 am

Dr. Lisa McNamee:

If any other health intervention had the power that this would actually give to patients we would be advocating for it. As medics, because this is the second global risk factor and threat to human health, we have to use any tools we have at our disposal to do so. Anything that can damage human health to such a degree must carry at a minimum a health warning if not an outright ban. That is the perspective we are coming from as doctors.