Thomas Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I did not come to the House today expecting to be shocked, but I am, because there did not appear to be a single reference to climate change in the Minister of State's speech. I can be corrected if this is not the case, but there was evidence in his speech that both he and the OPW are climate change deniers. He said: "There is no firm evidence that this level of variability is reflective of anything more than natural variations in our weather." If we have climate change deniers at the heart of the Government, I am very worried.