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27th August 2017
12:08pm BST

According to Newstalk, the Minister for Agriculture hopes that the Government can meet their global targets in order to help tackle the effects of climate change in Ireland.
"I think with climate change we're going to see more extreme weather events of this kind. "It is questionable what any State, and what this Government, can do - but the most important thing is that the Government responds appropriately. "It's also important that in the bigger picture context that we play our part in terms of the appropriate policies to deal with climate change. "We need to invest in flood relief measures - but bear in mind, and anybody who has put a foot in the Inishowen Penninsula in recent days will tell you, that people up there say this is not an area that has previously been subject to flood risk."
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