Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)

Our targets are based on 1990 levels. We can quibble about it but Deputy O'Dowd is not the only one to make this point. I wish to correct the record on this aspect. Our emissions in 2005 were 25% above the 1990 levels. During the Kyoto Protocol period, 2008 to 2012 we should be at 113% so we are 12% above where we should be. It is a technical but important point.

Deputy O'Dowd may have missed the fact that the Taoiseach's entire speech on the opening night of the Fianna Fáil Ard-Fheis was on the environment.

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