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Seanad: Climate Change Response Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jan 2011)

Paddy Burke: Senator Boyle, without interruption.

Seanad: Climate Change Response Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jan 2011)

Paddy Burke: Senator Boyle, without interruption.

Seanad: Climate Change Response Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jan 2011)

Paddy Burke: Senator Boyle, without interruption.

Seanad: Climate Change Response Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jan 2011)

Paddy Burke: Senator Boyle, without interruption.

Seanad: Climate Change Response Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jan 2011)

Paddy Burke: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this legislation. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Mary White, to the House. She is a great person for coming to the House and I am sure she will take on board the comments of Senators and bring them back to the Minister. Everyone is in agreement that there must be a climate change Bill. However, many important issues could be dealt with and...

Seanad: Climate Change Response Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jan 2011)

Paddy Burke: As to what this could mean for us, beef production could move to Third World countries. I do not have anything against such countries but they have little or no carbon policies in place. That would only result in shifting the problem elsewhere.

Seanad: Climate Change Response Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jan 2011)

Paddy Burke: They may well be but, as the Senator said, we are where we are and we know where we are now.

Seanad: Climate Change Response Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jan 2011)

Paddy Burke: I heard a debate on the energy sector on the radio yesterday. The Government can assist the agricultural sector and the agribusiness sector to put in place alternative energy projects. One such alternative is solar energy. I am not referring to solar panels but to a solar energy installation that can be put on the roofs of large buildings from which electricity can be generated. It could...

Seanad: Climate Change Response Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jan 2011)

Paddy Burke: They have had no real input into the framing of this legislation. Senator Coffey proposed, by way of a reasoned amendment, that we should endeavour to get all-party agreement on this important legislation by bringing all the stakeholders on board and formulating a plan we could all support and with which we could move forward. I agree with what Senator Ellis said about dealing with targets...

Seanad: Road Traffic Bill 2011: Second Stage (19 Jan 2011)

Paddy Burke: I welcome the Minister and join other Senators in wishing him well in his forthcoming retirement in the not too distant future. He has had a long and distinguished career in the Dáil and was always well on top of his brief when he came to this House. I have no doubt he is well on top of this legislation. Of course, we all support legislation that will save lives. The difference in cars...

Seanad: Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jan 2011)

Paddy Burke: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Power.

Seanad: Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jan 2011)

Paddy Burke: Amendments Nos. 1 and 2 are related and may be discussed together, by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jan 2011)

Paddy Burke: Amendments Nos. 9 and 10 are related and will be discussed together.

Seanad: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2011: Motion for Earlier Signature (20 Jan 2011)

Paddy Burke: When is it proposed to sit again?

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (20 Jan 2011)

Paddy Burke: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Education and Skills, Deputy Seán Haughey.

Seanad: Fourteenth Report of Committee of Selection: Motion (25 Jan 2011)

Paddy Burke: The Committee of Selection reports that it has discharged Senator Joe O'Toole from membership of the Committee on Members' Interest at his own request. I move: "That the Report be laid before the Seanad."

Seanad: Student Support Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Jan 2011)

Paddy Burke: When is it proposed to sit again?

Seanad: Legal Profession (25 Jan 2011)

Paddy Burke: I join Senator Walsh in wishing the Minister of State the best of luck in the forthcoming general election.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Public Order) Bill 2010: Second Stage (26 Jan 2011)

Paddy Burke: I welcome the Minister and congratulate him on assuming responsibility for the Department of Justice and Law Reform, as well as the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Public Order) Bill 2010: Second Stage (26 Jan 2011)

Paddy Burke: A division has been called in the Dáil and the sitting will have to be suspended. Does the Senator wish to conclude her speech now or resume after the suspension?