Ireland’s Department of Health says it is engaging with the OECD to monitor excess mortality “as an indicator of the impact of climate change,” and says that heart-related issues and tumours were some of the leading causes of death last year.
The comments were made in the Dáil on Wednesday by Fine Gael Minister of State at the Department of Health, Hildegarde Naughton.
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