Ciarán
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They talk about an additional 30 million being allocated in budget 2026 and the 270 odd new medicines, 74 of which are for rare diseases.
I mean, you talk to people who are out in it day in, day out.
Just to be fair to them, you know, that's the responses that they provided.
You talk to any farmer in the country and they'll say, you know, evidence of climate change is all around them.
No commitment within them, nor would you necessarily expect to make this drug available.
You know, the people who are paying really, really close attention to weather patterns and weather events.
What would you be saying to TDs tomorrow in Leinster House?
So the view is we're gone too far.
We're gone too far down this road.
We're too reliant on all of these products and we just need to adapt rather than try to reverse it.
Some conflict has been actually as a result of climate change.
You look at what precipitated the massive refugee crisis in Europe a few years ago, and it was the civil war in Syria, which was precipitated by changing climate there and people flooding into the big urban conurbations, and it led to this huge...
So there's a direct correlation between both.
And when you're saying kind of adapt to it, I mean, it's one thing to adapt to 27 degree temperatures in May in Ireland.
The consequence for other parts of the world would become that, you know, parts of the coast would become flooded, large parts of kind of
The tropics may become uninhabitable.