Results 4,401-4,420 of 7,278 for speaker:Dick Roche

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)

Dick Roche: This is not some star chamber.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)

Dick Roche: As I said, as soon as may be. I actually do not know——

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)

Dick Roche: I told my Department to get on with the job.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)

Dick Roche: I did not. I told it——

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)

Dick Roche: That is the Deputy's view. I am never slow in reaching targets.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)

Dick Roche: The Deputy does not want me to deal with the facts.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)

Dick Roche: Every time the Deputy speaks about this issue, he issues a degree of extraordinary confusion on it or simply an incapacity to grasp it.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)

Dick Roche: The Deputy has said time and again that it will cost thousands of millions——

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)

Dick Roche: ——but the Deputy is wrong and has always been so.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)

Dick Roche: The Deputy asked me a third question which he does not want me to answer.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)

Dick Roche: The Deputy asked me a third question which he does not want me to answer because he is on the record as saying time and again that it will cost us thousands of millions in fines to reach the target.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)

Dick Roche: The Deputy did. He said on one occasion that it would cost €1 billion.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)

Dick Roche: The Deputy also gives high double digit figures for the cost of a tonne which he knows are wrong. As the Deputy knows, the figure fluctuates.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)

Dick Roche: It has been as low as 8 million.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)

Dick Roche: The estimate is approximately 15 million. The figure has gone up and down as the Deputy knows. It fluctuates. The estimated figure is approximately 15 million. If one takes 3 million and multiplies it by that, one is talking about a lot less. The mechanism provides specifically——

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)

Dick Roche: If one multiplies 3 million by 15 million, one gets 45 million. That would be the figure in 2012 if nothing happened between now and then. However, one should look at what we propose to do in respect of biofuels, for example. As Deputy Cuffe knows, when one increases the amount of biofuels from 2% to 5.7% not only does one cut significantly the cost of fuel but one also significantly cuts...

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)

Dick Roche: The figure of 8 million tonnes is the achievement to date. That calculation comes from various EPA reports. Deputy McCormack is quite right in saying that changes in agricultural practice are having a major impact on emissions. One must realise that changes in agriculture have, to a large extent, been driven for example by the huge take-up in REPS.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)

Dick Roche: The recently adopted nitrates package will also have a significant impact, as will the decoupling of payments. All of those factors will result in change. One could say these are determined by external factors but they are Government policy. A grant package for housing was announced in the 2006 budget — the greener homes initiative of which the take-up has been significant. I understand...

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)

Dick Roche: I just answered it. Perhaps there is something wrong with the acoustics. The Deputy may not have heard me but I stated it is already a fact that the legal prohibition will continue as long as this Government is in power.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (4 Oct 2006)

Dick Roche: A Cabinet sub-committee exists which examines environment, energy, transport and agriculture. It is a sensible point to environmentally test a whole series of public policies. I do not accept Deputy Cuffe's point about urban sprawl. We have a rapidly growing population. People like to live in individual households. Notwithstanding that the EEA appears to have some prescriptive remedy as...