Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)

I have already made it clear that the consultation period in Ireland's Pathway to Kyoto Compliance concluded at the end of last month and I intend to act on that. The distance to target as of this moment is roughly 7.2 million. If one nets out the figures I have already identified for the Deputy, one is talking about 3.5 million. The figure which the Deputy quoted, that is, approximately €1 billion in fines, look very odd in that regard.

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