Oisín Coughlan

And it's not being fully used for that.

And that makes it very hard for those of us who are saying it could have a role to play to defend it.

But I would be saying this.

I think the call to government is...

Show us your plan to get us off fossil fuels, because the government's own programme for government says they're going to have decisive action to radically reduce our reliance on important, expensive fossil fuels.

That's what they wrote in January of last year.

Very prescient, but they haven't followed up.

So where's the plan?

And then, for other parties as well, how are you going to fund it?

And to be honest, I don't care whether they fund it through wealth tax, carbon tax, income tax, VAT, but I want to know how they're going to fund it, and I want to know how we're going to get a fair, fast and funded transition away from fossil fuels.

Ireland just, by the way, volunteered to co-host an international conference this time next year on the transition away from fossil fuels, along with Colombia and Tuvalu and the Netherlands, kind of parallel to the UN process on climate, specifically on transitioning away from fossil fuels.

So we have no credibility to do that if we can't show our own plan and show our own funding how that's going to be in order.

And that's where the failure is.

Well, now with rising energy prices and massive volatility on the gas and oil markets, Ireland's environmental pillar has issued a rallying call for the government to do more to cut our reliance on fossil fuels.

They say a new survey shows that 56% of Irish people think the government is not doing enough, fast enough, to cut Ireland's reliance on fossil fuels.

I'm joined now by Oisín Coughlan, who's former director of

are friends of the Earth and policy advisor to the environmental pillar.

Good morning, Oisín.

Thank you for being with us.

So 56% of people think that the government is being a laggard on climate.