Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I do not subscribe to this notion of climate change. The climate changed going back through the pages of history. I will not go into that but it is a fact and it is well known. This is a savage attack on people in rural Ireland who own a car, maybe an old one, although it has been tested and is legally on the road. It is an attack on old people who have no other way of heating their homes except for oil, briquettes or coal. It is an attack on farmers who cannot stir or move around at all or do anything on their farms or land without a tractor. It is an attack on plant hire and agricultural contractors. It is an attack on hauliers and bus operators. It is trying to force people to buy electric cars. If electric cars were the real deal they are supposed to be and if they were an option, the people of Ireland and the people of rural Ireland are not fools, they would buy electric cars. However they are not a real option. There is one other thing: the battery. More carbon is produced to make and dispose of batteries and it is a danger to the people who drive them if there is an accident. These are the batteries that people objected to in wind farms, where they were stored out in the open and far away. I do not subscribe to this. I will vote-----

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