Christopher O'Sullivan (Cork South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I bring to the Taoiseach’s attention a headline in my local newspaper, the Southern Star, that states, "Forget the climate for now says TD". The newspaper attributes that comment to a public representative in my constituency. This is in the context of people drowning in floods across the globe, dying in forest fires that are out of control, sea levels rising and thousands of young Irish people having taken to the streets calling on us for action, yet there are public representatives in the House, climate change deniers, who are saying, let us do nothing; forget about it.

I ask the Taoiseach to ramp up our climate actions, our offshore renewable energy and our retrofitting scheme so it is targeted at the people who need it most. I ask him to ramp up our renewable energy so we can silence these climate change deniers.

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