Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)

I seek to have the business of the House adjourned under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of urgent national and international importance, namely, to appraise the Dáil of the Government's failure to date to prepare Ireland for compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, which comes into effect today, and its successors which provide that reductions will be far more stringent that the original protocol. It is expected that Ireland will have an overrun of over 40% on 1990 levels by 2010, posing enormous fines on taxpayers.

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