Yesterday saw the Dublin government launch its long-delayed and much-hyped ‘Housing For All’ plan. The leaders of the three coalition parties - Martin, Varadkar and Ryan - were all on stage for the launch, along with the current hapless Minister For Housing, Darragh O’Brien.

Back in 1988, when the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was formed, there were still significant information gaps in relation to what impact human activity was having on the Earth’s