Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

On the first question, the view of the European Council is that while the targets agreed are ambitious and would not be achieved across each individual country the collective figures for Europe can be achieved. When one looks at all the reports and the evidence, the emissions from Ireland and England are 1.5% of the total and even for Europe that is small. If everyone took the view that because one is small one can do nothing, nobody would get anywhere.

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