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

I thank Senators for their contributions. Many points were made. I thought about Senator Chambers's granny and every granny. Senator Murphy spoke about farmers in Roscommon. This is now a matter for everyone. The vast majority of Irish people want to play their part.

We are all worried about getting to the end of the week rather than what might happen at the end of the world, but people are increasingly aware that this is an existential threat, as was said at the start. As Senator O'Reilly said, they want to play their part. We will have plenty of opportunities over the next few years because change is coming. Sinn Féin is always talking about change being the big narrative in Irish politics at the moment. The scale of change we need in order to deal with climate change is beyond compare.

We need change for the better, and for a better and more ecological and socially just system We also want more public transport, more active travel and to pay farmers and save them money because they will not be using as much fertiliser. We can do simple things like that. As Senator Chambers said, there will be lower herds numbers but farming will not stop. We need farmers to be at the centre of this. They are the custodians of our land.

It was good to go to COP and look at the big picture internationally, but we now need to bring it back home. We will do that with the next iteration of the climate action plan, which will go to Government in the near future. Implementing that will bring change aplenty for the better.