Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has said opposition parties need to “stop playing politics” on climate change “while Europe burns”.
Speaking at St Vincent’s University Hospital on Wednesday, Mr Donnelly hit out at the opposition, in what appeared to be a reference to Sinn Fein calling on the Government to scrap an increase to the carbon tax.
Asked by the PA news agency if the Government had done any work to prepare hospitals for extreme weather events such as heatwaves, Mr Donnelly said: “Can I just say one of the characteristics of this Dail is a Government that has brought in – by any yardstick – what is an incredibly ambitious climate change plan.
