Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 January 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs

European Year of Development: Discussion

12:35 pm

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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It is coming down.

In fact, however, at this stage they are only capable of approximately 500 km of a round trip. I was driving beside one in town the other day. There was nothing wrong with its acceleration, unfortunately. I thought it accelerated too fast away from me but that is neither here nor there. This is all attainable, however.

The alternative is that we accept the penalties, which will be between €5 billion and €7 billion between now and 2020. That would be interesting. It might help to concentrate our minds.