Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)

I expect the Bill to be published in 2012. I cannot anticipate whether it will be early or late but I have obligations from the EU environment perspective to have targets put in place, not in prescriptive form, like the previous Government, but in respect of the sectoral policies that must be deployed to meet our Kyoto objectives which we are likely to meet, but equally the 2020 objectives which we are required to meet under the EU agreements to which we have signed up already.

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