Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

I am being factual, correct and honest. We have seen Fianna Fáil Deputies distributing leaflets lauding the great progress the Government is making. There is one huge reason to vote against this motion. It is not to block the development of clean development mechanism progress — it is to say that the Government's climate change strategy and its review are disgraceful because of the lack of ambition, honesty and purpose.

The Government is leading the people up the garden path. They will ask why the Government did not tell them climate change was such an important issue and why it made those investment decisions when it knew it was the wrong direction to take. I will commit my political life to meeting this climate change challenge. We can achieve the radical 80% or 90% reductions about which the scientists are now talking. If we do not, we will pass a tipping point and climate change will run away from us. We do not have much time but this side of the House has the political will to be honest, direct and to help the people face this challenge.

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