 Thank you Mr. Speaker. I promise not to delay the proceedings for much longer except to just briefly comment on some of the contributions that came subsequent to me presenting the bill. Mr. Speaker, let me start off with the contribution from the member for Castries East and Prime Minister. I think the Prime Minister made a very important point when he attempted to establish that nexus between solid waste management or indiscriminate dumping of waste in our waterways and how that can adversely affect our country particularly given the fact that we know one of the things coming out of climate change is that we have more more more severe flooding and things of that sort. Mr. Speaker, but he also made a very important point and it is a point that has been made at some of the original and international meetings that have attended in the realm of climate change and it is something that has been spoken about extensively that the Caribbean is becoming uninsurable and that the big insurance companies they are looking to invest elsewhere because of the frequency with which the weather systems visit our shores that even before we are able to recover and insurance companies are able to pay for the damages inflicted. Mr. Speaker, there's another one on the horizon waiting to unleash. So it is something that we have to look at and in our building codes etc. We have to ensure that we invest in more climate resilient infrastructure to make us a region that insurance companies would want to invest money in. Mr. Speaker, the member for the library he spoke about the main offenders in terms of global greenhouse gas emissions and he attempted to establish a comparison between St. Lucia which is practically at net zero meaning that we contribute to we do not contribute any greenhouse we do not contribute or emit greenhouse gases in comparison to the amount of trees and forest coverage that we have but yet we are the ones living on the front line of climate change and bearing the brunt of climate change. Mr. Speaker, he also mentioned some of the funding sources and he spoke about the green climate fund or the Gcf he also mentioned the adaptation fund and the loss and damage fund and I can tell you one of the painstaking features of the whole climate change discourse is the amount of bureaucracy and the frustration you have to put up with on a daily basis trying to negotiate for monies to build back after you've been impacted by by a weather system and I think that was a very telling point. Mr. Speaker, naturally the longest of the contributions came from the very limited member from view for South and I've always said that whenever he presents on a bill in this house it's always an exercise in legal education for which we don't have to pay and so there's always a lot to learn but as I would have indicated Mr. Speaker when I presented the legislation I cited that this was the first of its kind there would be some issues with the first with the draft that has been presented here today but it is something that will constantly be reworking of course making the legislation tighter and addressing some of the issues that he cited in his contribution but he also made a very important point as it relates to public education. Now the custom from what I know in this honorable house is that legislation always comes with a lexicon of the area or the trade but it is up to us as public officials and as head heads of agencies Mr. Speaker to go out there and ensure that we distill the information in the bill and represent it to people on a level and in terms that they can understand but climate change is too serious a phenomenon as it impacts our country for the entire population not to be sensitized and educated in terms of how serious and impact climate change can have on the development of our country. He mentioned methane gas coming out of cattle production and livestock where it Mr. Speaker let me just see very quickly that we are working with the Center for Clean Air Policy that is a non-profit organization established in Washington DC and they are spending millions of dollars working with Latin America and the Caribbean selected countries of course to deal with the emission of methane at landfills and solution happens to be one of the countries benefiting from that particular program. Mr. Speaker the proposed legislation I believe is progressive it is timely as I indicated it is the first of its kind in the Caribbean and it really accentuates the appreciation that we have as an administration to climate change and the debilitating impact it can have on the socioeconomic landscape of our country. Mr. Speaker there are adjustments to be made we will continually rework the legislation and as time permits Mr. Speaker we will have a refined piece of legislation that will be more aligned and more in keeping with some of the issues that have been highlighted here today. I expected for there to have been issues and questions to have been asked but as I indicated this is working progress and as we move forward we will look to have a much tighter piece of legislation that will guide and inform the general climate change discourse in our country.