Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I very much agree with the Deputy. The recent flooding events in Midleton in Cork and around the country reminded us, if we needed to be, that we need to accelerate climate action but also particularly need to accelerate adaptation. Climate change is a global problem that we can only make a very small contribution to changing, unfortunately. However, adaptation is entirely within our hands now. We need to increase our focus on adaptation over the coming years and we will. It is about much more than flood relief; it is about other things as well. The Government is very ambitious about anaerobic digestion. We have not seen the kind of progress we would like to have seen to date. We are very keen to encourage and support farmers and the industry to invest in this and produce biogas for our grid, which we do not currently have.

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