Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

-----which will be one of the main problems resulting from a failure to deal with climate change. It is an agreement that the Government is championing.

I agree with the leader of the Green Party when he says this is a golden opportunity and we should be leading. It is an absolute golden opportunity for us to take the business opportunities offered by alternative energy and to lead the way. If I might be parochial, in Galway we are proceeding with an inner-outer bypass at the cost of €30 million per kilometre for 16.5 km of road. How that ties in with our responsibilities to reduce emissions is absolutely beyond me. Yet that is what the Government is allowing to happen - €30 million per kilometre and no provision for public transport until that road goes up.

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