Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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It is a direct payment. Certain countries will benefit. Those countries with a surplus, in other words that achieved more than what was set out in the European targets, will get a direct benefit from the Exchequer. It will bring us into compliance, and the focus must now be on meeting our climate emissions targets in the next decade so the same event does not happen again.