Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I think those opposite have got their papers mixed up. Their papers are definitely mixed up when they are talking about Norway. The oil, gas and coal resources that are directly offshore in Norway are up to 12 times greater than the known resources. That is a fact that has long since been established. The problem is that we have to move inexorably towards a programme of dealing with climate change. We need to be thinking about what we want to do. Are we going to live in cloud-cuckoo land in the future? Are we going to pretend there is no such thing as climate change at all?

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