Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)

I let Deputy Cuffe speak. I respect him so I ask him to let me speak. The point I was making was that we are all polluters and must pay. There is no free way out of this, no matter what way one does it. If one does it this way, there is a cost to be picked up. If we do it Deputy Cuffe's way, there is a cost to be picked up. There is no free way out of this.

If Deputy Cuffe wants to impose an additional burden on industry, he should have the honesty to say so. The reality is that——

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