Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

The Green Party utterly disagrees with the paradigm the Minister presents of a choice between the economy and the environment. We agree with the views expressed by Al Gore in his recent film on climate change, which outlines the simple realities of the situation and refutes the Minister's image of a weighing scales with the economy on one side and the planet on the other. Without a planet, we will not have an economy.

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