Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

-----that would have to be done not a year in arrears but this year. It is a move to that. It is the purchase of carbon units, which is required under the Kyoto Protocol targets. Funding for these purchases comes from the Central Fund, and then provision is made in the Vote from the technical Estimate in the following year. This year, however, we have been told to do it in the same year. That is where that comes from.