Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

That is the balance that we on this side of the House have a duty and a responsibility to ensure. We have to ensure that on the one hand we are not making pyrrhic gestures in that we are trying to exhort all other blocs in the world to do their duty in responding to the Stern report. There is no point in Ireland on its own, or the EU on its own or most of the western world on its own responding to climate change in a very dramatic way that could perhaps put its economies in jeopardy while at the same time other blocs——

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