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

There are challenges. I use the word "can". It is not certain. It will require incredible change, a scale of change that nobody really understands yet in the political system. Work being done here is on the basis of real, detailed modelling of what is actually happening in our country and what would happen if we took certain steps. If we look at that SEAI press release and what it says about what we need to do to get back on track, and we need to come back on track, those are the broad measures that are included in the climate action plan. It is based on a realistic assessment of what is happening throughout the country and what could happen. It is not certain. Nothing is certain in this world. It is changing very quickly. We are going to give it our absolute best shot. The best shot is set out within the climate action plan. I am absolutely committed to doing everything I can to make it happen. Nobody should underestimate the scale of the challenge. The challenge of transport, just to pick one, involves the reallocation of space. When I go around the country to all the councils to ask what they are going to do to deliver that, it is not easy. More than anything else it will require political commitment in this House and at local government level to take some brave, ambitious decisions which will benefit this country. It is not certain but we can do it.

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