Batt O'Keeffe (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

The Bill seeks to place an obligation on the Government to reduce its emissions to up to 30% below 1990 levels by 2020 and up to 80% by 2050. These are huge reductions in the context of Ireland's current emissions of 25% above 1990 values. My colleagues have explained the implications of these reductions for Ireland.

Targets such as these are all very well but no country would sign up to any of them——

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