Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Speaking of Ardnacrusha, that was a moment when the State made a radical decision which worked to build a hydro-electric energy station.

Will the Minister be attending the Bonn climate conference and will he have to admit there that on the critical question of climate change, the Government is failing to take the kind of radical action necessary to avoid massive fines for the State's failure to meet emission targets, and to take seriously the move to transition to a low carbon economy that will protect our environment and help to protect the entire planet? Does he agree that we are failing disastrously in this regard? We are nowhere close to meeting our targets.

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