Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Two Government party Deputies were targeted in Kildare, with thousands of leaflets calling on the people to vote against them because they espouse alternative energy. It is a grand enlightened approach, which is very reassuring in the world in which we live.

The fact of the matter is that the targets are attainable if we go about it in the right way without any massive impact of a negative nature on the community. I believe that in ten or 15 years' time, all of the world's domestic motor cars will be electric. As soon as electric cars can do a 1,000 km round trip it will be the end of the petrol car, and so it should be, because otherwise we cannot meet our targets. If we do not meet this target, which is attainable without any stress-----