Ciarán

Let me bring in Mary, who is on the line as well.

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Mary, I know you were listening to Sifra.

What do you make of what she had to say?

I just want to bring in Ciarán as well, Mary, who's listening to this.

Ciarán, I mean, should unseasonably warm weather like this or unseasonably wet weather at other times of the year or flooding or storm, should they spur us on to more drastic climate action, do you think?

Comparing Ireland and India, with all due respect, you use the word silly, so I'll use it as well.

It's a bit silly, isn't it?

I mean, per capita, per head of population, we're much bigger emitters than India.

Aren't we?

Oh yeah, per head of population, absolutely.

You're responsible for far more emissions than the average Indian.

It's just that there's 1.2 billion of them.

Ciarán, you'll want to respond to that.

Yeah, well, sorry, Ciarán, in fairness, you said countries and you said Africa and then you said consonants, but you included Indonesia.

I mean, I think she's right.

Would it surprise you, Ciarán, to learn that China's the biggest global investor in renewables?

They are, again, because there's well over a billion of them.

So when you break it down country by country and compare one country to another, it's like saying that Dingle is much safer than Dublin because there's more car crashes in Dublin than Dingle.

It's a false equivalence.