Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Dail Éireann — 2023-02-28
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Ossian Smyth (GP), Dún Laoghaire

It takes all parties to solve this problem. This is not a partisan issue and it will not work if one party takes it one way. It does not work if parties condemn or denounce one another. It works if we can constructively work together. I am not long in politics but the Deputy knows that I am committed to climate action and that it is all I have thought about for most of the last 20 years. Therefore, it just bounces off me if I get accusations that I do not really care or want to do this. It is just not true and everybody who knows me or who has ever worked with me knows it is not true. Our parties and our Government are committed to climate action. We know what the different areas are that we have to work on to get there. It is not easy, it cannot be entirely done by Government and it requires the corporate sector to do its part. We have to regulate and tax the corporate sector and we have to push it into doing its part because it will not do it otherwise; it has no reason to. It also takes action from the public. It means we have to change our entire culture in order that we can carry out these things.

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Sitting date: 2023-02-28