Darren O'Rourke, Sinn Féin TD

Five Degrees of Change

This week’s episode is with Darren O’Rourke, Sinn Féin TD for Meath East and the party’s spokesman on Climate and Environment. O'Rourke is critical of what he calls the austerity approach to environmentalism undertaken by this government, and is proposing climate action under Sinn Féin that would be more equitable, and therefore would have greater buy in from the public

For his policy changes, he spoke about funding the green transition more fairly, use our national energy resources for public good rather than private gain, and make the energy transition more accessible to ordinary working families.

For his personal changes, O’Rourke spoke about reducing waste at home, and reducing his transport emissions.