Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)

The Minister is using the same logic as a prisoner in the dock pointing out other individuals in the court who have committed worse crimes. He is putting an emphasis on buying our way out of the Kyoto agreement. Will he confirm, however, that he agrees buying our way out is not the best way of addressing the problem?

What percentage of submissions argued for the establishment of mandatory annual targets for emissions? I ask the Minister to determine the number of individuals who made such an argument, rather than referring collectively to several hundred different submissions.

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