Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

I do not think that was a very clear answer at the end. Does the Minister support a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty? Does he support that or not? If he supports it, is that just something that exists in one part of his mind or is it something he is advocating for within Government as Minister for the environment? His response to COP28 was very poor. He attempted to greenwash the outcome of that to try to pretend we are making progress we are simply not making. It was completely captured by the oil and gas corporations as well. The president of COP28 has gone back to his day job of flogging oil and gas for the UAE state oil company, and the Minister has gone back to his day job of pretending we are making progress we simply are not and lulling people to sleep. That is why we need this fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty. It is why 60 environmental activist groups came together before Christmas to call on the Irish Government to take a lead and to publicly endorse it. That is absolutely what we need to do. We need to help develop this parallel process.

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