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Seanad: Climate Action: Statements (5 Nov 2019)

Terry Leyden: ...the Minister will respond that these figures do not take into account commitments in the Government's climate plan. We have to remember that the EPA announcement is just the latest in a decade-long list of warnings that Ireland's emissions are hurtling in the wrong direction. Can we expect any sort of immediate response from the Government, when all previous EPA reports seem to have been...

Seanad: Climate Action: Statements (5 Nov 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ..., it is an extraordinary level of failure. Let us be clear that while the protests on the streets may be accelerating, we have known about this issue. The science has been available for a very long time. Our performance has simply been inadequate and we face fines of hundreds of millions of euro.While the language is shifting and small actions are being taken, the required scale of...

Seanad: Climate Action: Statements (5 Nov 2019)

Kevin Humphreys: ...there was development on floodplains throughout the country. I recently listened to Senator Lombard's contribution and I welcome his late conversion to climate action. Senator Higgins and I, along with the former Senator, Grace O'Sullivan, fought line by line on the Heritage Act, which sought to allow the cutting down of hedgerows on a pilot scheme. Thankfully, the legislation was never...

Seanad: Climate Action: Statements (5 Nov 2019)

Ned O'Sullivan: ...this LNG would be explosive, volatile and dangerous but, in fact, empirical showed that not to be true at all. Nevertheless, because of the process that was there at the time, the project was halted long enough for the principals behind it to get windy and nervous about their money and investment and to pull out. Local people, local money and a local businessman persevered. They got new...