No. It is to track climate change. They are not-----

They are not choosing their own sites here.

That is not what the Deputy said or what he was talking about.

I assumed the Deputy was talking about the trade-off between how we designate marine protected areas and how we have offshore wind as well-----

-----and that is the point. The point is that there will be trade-offs. There will have to be compromises because the overall good will be served by offshore wind if we take out fossil fuels. That is to the benefit of biodiversity. It is to the benefit of climate. We have to make a call and make the hard decisions-----

-----and hard decisions will have to be made about this. We cannot start one week attacking the fossil fuel and energy companies one week, however, and the next week start attacking industrial offshore wind. The bottom line of the Deputy's agenda is that anything to do with industry or anyone who is about investment is bad. That seems to be the Deputy's position.

In terms of the-----

I would say that-----

We are the first Government to bring in a national marine spatial framework and marine legislation and we had the establishment of the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority, MARA. We want more marine designated areas.

I have a good few responses left. Will I finish them?

It will take two or three minutes.

I will just say that the Southern Star is a very august publication. However, if it is the case the headline read "Forget the climate for now", that is sounding the death knell for future and younger generations. That kind of approach is reprehensible and does not serve the young people of today.

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Géarchéim uafásach atá againn maidir le praghsanna. Níl aon amhras ach go bhfuil an Rialtas ag déanamh a dhíchill cabhair agus tacaíocht a thabhairt do gach éinne: teaghlaigh éagsúla ar fud na tíre; gnóthaí; agus eagrais éagsúla atá ag obair ar son mhuintir na tíre san áireamh. Táimid ag tabhairt an-chuid tacaíochta do dhaoine agus bhí sé sin soiléir sa cháinaisnéis a bhí againn an tseachtain seo caite. We are facing the worst global energy crisis since the 1970s, caused by Russia's immoral and unprovoked war on th…

Blessed be the malfunctioning clock.

I am not rehashing any global generalities. Rather, I am bringing the hard reality of a wartime situation in Europe to the floor of the House. I will never make an apology for that. The Deputy is trying to create the delusion or illusion that everything is normal and we can go back to pre-crisis levels. That is the Deputy's line. She believes we can all make it go away magically.