Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

It may be politically expedient in the short term to put them to one side. I do not get any sense that the Government is engaging with the fundamental energy and climate change challenges that will face this country and the world as a whole in the years ahead. The fact the Cabinet sub-committee has met on just two occasions is a manifestation of the Government's inertia on these issues. It is failing to engage with them.

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