Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)

When the Government buys anything, it does so using taxpayers' money. If the Deputy had the forbearance to let me finish my sentence, I would inform him that there is a logic to the process, as he knows. One can either go the most economically costly way or, alternatively, buy green credits, from a developing country for example. This process in envisaged and central to the protocol. The Deputy knows this as well as I do and therefore there is no point in his acting as if he were astonished.

Deputy Gilmore also asked me about the worst case scenario — the worst case scenario is the worst case scenario. I have outlined to the Deputy the basis on which the calculations are made.

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