Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I reassure Deputy Healy-Rae that we have no plans for an outright ban on the burning of coal and turf but it certainly would be our objective, over time, to remove the burning of peat from power generation and perhaps the burning of coal as well in the medium to longer term. We debated climate change during questions to the Taoiseach last week and I laid out a number of actions being taken by the Government and referred to many things other than carbon tax. I refer Deputy Ryan to the answers I gave to his question yesterday, which was the same.

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