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

Will the Minister wake up and admit that? I would like him to answer that question when he is responding later. I will be listening very intently to what he says. He should answer the people and tell them that his failed policies were going to result in Ireland being shut down for electricity. Some people received redundancies, or were on pensions retired at home, and they got the call asking them to come back because the stations had to open up and if they did not we would not have power. That is the Minister's failure in government, his failure as the leader of the Green Party and his failure as a politician. He has failed disgracefully. He has all these grand ideas but they are backed up with nothing - zero - and what he is actually doing is hurting people. I am not a climate change denier but I have heard from other Deputies who buy into this and they are saying that we should go further quicker. What do they mean? Do they mean that old people should not have heat in their homes? Is that what they mean? They say they want to get away from the car culture. What do they want? Do they want people at home to be walking around or going on bicycles?

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