Liz McManus (Wicklow, Labour)

——to produce the environmental budget. The Minister has not done that. While that failure is evident he is trying to cloak the failure and pretend somehow that this is an environmental measure. It is not. Let us be honest; it is about generating revenue that local authorities need to ensure that non-national roads are maintained in good order. That is not about ensuring a fundamental change towards protecting our environment and tacking climate change.

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