Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)

With regard to carbon credits, one of the big issues in Sir Nicholas Stern's report concerns how the carbon credit mechanism can and will work and will be the best way forward. We should also listen to what Mr. Al Gore and Kofi Annan have to say on the matter. Kofi Annan argued at length in Nairobi for the proper use of carbon credits, and to that extent I agree with Deputy Eamon Ryan. Tony Blair has also put the case. The European Commission in its report on Ireland yesterday argued the case for us getting on with the job of purchasing carbon credits. The issue was also central last week in Nairobi.

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