Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The climate change debate is only to last for two hours, with eight people to speak for 15 minutes. Only eight people will speak which is hardly adequate for such an important issue. I know people want to wrap up early in the next two weeks, but it seems we cannot concertina everything into eight or nine days. That will be our challenge if we are to have meaningful debate. I accept this issue was always going to require debate. I do not understand how people thought it could go through without debate given the views they have traditionally on issues of this kind in the House. People need to go back to see if they can create time for a debate on this and allow the rest of the business go ahead.

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