Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I would love to stand up here and give encouragement and acknowledgement but maybe I should have been more clear. The Government's development plan sucks when it comes to climate action and it will not do the job. We need ambition that goes way beyond what the Taoiseach has just set out. We also need political support. I support the BusConnects project but we all know in this House that it is politically dead in the water at the moment because the real story there is that we will take the cars out of our cities and move towards car sharing and public transport. We should have the level of ambition where we will turning Dublin city into Copenhagen and the Government's plan does not do it. It is the old model of more roads with 63 big motorways and more sprawl.

The Taoiseach said that we are taking the peat out of Ireland by 2030 but that is not good enough because there will be no peat left by 2030. The Taoiseach should listen to all the advice that has been offered to the Joint Committee on Climate Action, which says the Government has to stop the peat production now.

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