Seymour Crawford (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)

I will not take lectures from the Green Party about a carbon tax. When we were in Government, 25,000 hectares of forestry was planted annually, not 5,000 hectares, and there was little money in the country. I have been involved in the organisation of wind farms, biomass plants and green energy production. I was successful in regard to the largest wind farm in the State but unsuccessful regarding the biomass plant because blunt lies were told. However, that is history. This is being introduced simply as a tax.

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