Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Anti-Austerity Alliance) | Oireachtas source

For many of us it is horrifying that the world's most important political post is about to be held by a climate-change denier, Donald Trump, who has threatened to pull out of the Paris Agreement, pull out of the UN Framework on Climate Change, and has promised to increase fossil fuel production and as part of that drive, fracking.

Did the Minister have discussions with any US representatives at the conference or since? Fine words are all very good, but Irish agriculture is due to increase its emissions by 6% to 7% by 2020 and transport emissions are set to climb by between 10% and 16% over that period. So the key elements in avoiding further emissions coming from Ireland particularly at a time when a global consensus at least that climate change exists and is manmade, are breaking down despite all the scientific evidence.

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