Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I do not agree. I refer again to the level of funding committed to this. We differ on the carbon tax but it will at best raise €9.5 billion, though I question that figure. That figure is a drop in the ocean in respect of what is needed to deliver the type of urgent systemic change the Minister is talking about out. People do not see the impact on public transport, for example. They do not see it with renewables. We are not there and the window of opportunity is closing. This transition might happen, and I expect it will, but at this rate it will not happen in time. That is where I see the real issue with delivering that institutional change. For the State to lead on this requires a level of resources beyond anything that has been committed at either an Irish or European level. There must be a step-change.

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