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

Finance is not the key obstacle. It is one of the elements we need to have in place but it is not the biggest constraint. The biggest constraint is that we all - public and Government - must engage in a form of system change that takes time, especially with transport, agriculture and energy. With energy, there is probably a clearer, more certain path. All the finance in energy is going to go in this clean direction towards retrofitting, renewables and hyper-efficiency in what we do. We are on the path there. It will take us time to switch off Moneypoint but we will do that. Transport and agriculture are more difficult. Financing is indeed one part but the biggest issue is probably political commitment at local and national levels. We have that political commitment in this House and it then comes down to the decisions themselves. It comes down to each decision on the allocation of space as much as the allocation of finance, to take that example. That is going to be the key metric.

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