Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

Given the Government's record on the old climate change strategy, producing a new one is simply not credible. When the old climate change strategy document was produced in 2000, Ireland was 21% above the Kyoto Protocol limits. Its objective was to reduce that figure by eight percentage points and get it down to 13%. However, the Government only succeeded in going in the other direction and driving it up by 4%. Ireland is now 25% or 26% above the limits, depending on whose figures one believes.

I was interested to hear the speeches of both Ministers, which listed all the measures they will take.

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