Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)

In light of his response to these amendments, the Minister is not prepared to meet the cost of extending this scheme but is willing to spend €270 million to buy our way out of Kyoto commitments. The Minister has real choices. We offer subsidies in a range of areas to encourage people to engage in certain behaviour. Would it not be a more beneficial environmental use of Exchequer money to target it in this way than to spend it elsewhere?

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