Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)

It has been hugely successful to date. The dedicated website has been visited by more than 35,000 people, and 25,000 information packs have already been despatched from our mailing centre. We will shortly extend that campaign into a Power of One Street campaign.

The Government has clearly had significant success to date in the area of bio-fuels. While I appreciate Fine Gael's intention in introducing this Bill to the House, its provisions cannot be introduced without incurring a serious breach of EU legislation. I urge the Opposition not to support this Bill but to participate in the forthcoming debate on the structure and roll-out of the bio-fuels obligation which I announced on Monday——

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