The article criticizes the Irish government for its inadequate response to recent storms and its failure to prioritize climate adaptation. It highlights the government's misleading claims about housing construction and suggests that the government needs to take more seriously the threat of increasingly severe weather events.
Preparing for the inevitable consequences of a heating world is an urgent task for governments everywhere. Ours hasn’t given it remotely enough attention
Ah yes. Barely a week earlier the same gentleman had worked himself into quite the lather over the way the Opposition disrupted the solemn proceedings of our national parliament on the admittedly flimsy grounds of a row over speaking time for a few Independent TDs. Of course, Ministers were not “on holiday”, as some of the Opposition attacks charged. But nor were they running around the west of Ireland in hard hats reconnecting people’s electricity supply. And actually, you may be sure that if a Minister or the Taoiseach were scheduled to answer questions in the Dáil, it would concentrate the minds of their officials and the agencies that work for them.
And while I think few people would necessarily agree with the woman who told the Taoiseach in a widely reported exchange that what people in the west of Ireland should all get is a grant to buy a residential wind turbine, two solar panels and a battery, there is clearly a lot of work to be done to prepare for more severe storms in the future.
Opposition parties and pesky interviewers all questioned the 40,000 figure during and before the general election campaign but their doubts were pooh-poohed by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael , who confidently asserted the 40,000 figure. Meanwhile, the Government is appointing record numbers of Ministers of State to keep the Independents on board and their own backbenchers – other than thewill be piled on top of old ones to boost the take-home pay of people who are not badly paid as it is. I am reasonably relaxed about politicians’ pay; it’s a rough job and should be well paid. Many people are not so relaxed. Surveying the numbers this week, I counted up all the pay rises that TDs have received in the past five years: 13.
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