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Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: There are jobs in renewables.

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Does the Deputy ever make plans?

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Hear, hear.

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: I want to share my time with Deputies O'Dowd and Olivia Mitchell. It is risible, if not ludicrous, to see the Fianna Fáil backbenchers, Deputies Kelly, Finneran and Cregan, coming in here like a trio of ventriloquist's dummies. One can almost see the Minister, Deputy Roche's hand up——

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: ——Deputy Kelly's back.

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: We could hear the mantra, devised by the Fianna Fáil press office, that they are trying out for the general election——

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: ——where all the carbon emissions will be heaped on the heads of the Green Party.

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: They hope that will prevent a change of Government, but it may not work because many people are profoundly interested in the legislation before us. They might not agree with every line of it, however they feel it is a timely debate. The Green Party must be commended for bringing forward this Bill, one of the major elements of which, as I understand it, is to provoke a debate year-on-year in...

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Let us face it, the Minister knows that in 18 months' time the election will be just over, and I hope every one of us here tonight, including Deputy Cregan, will be in the 30th Dáil. On that occasion, let us say that Fianna Fáil has 72 seats. The Minister will do whatever is required to try to make a majority because he believes in being in government, and rightly so because one can do...

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Therefore, the Minister should not give us hypocrisy about the terrible Greens to try to sweat down the likely change of Government, which is now a prospect that is opening up.

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Yesterday Britain's leading scientist, Robert McCredie, the outgoing President of the Royal Society and the former chief scientific adviser to the British Government, with outstanding academic credentials, in a major speech to coincide with the worldwide conference on climate change that opened in Montreal this week stated that the potentially devastating impact of climate change "invites...

Order of Business. (1 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: In the case of the Labour Party's mercantile marine Bill, did the Tánaiste tell the Taoiseach she would leave Government rather than support it?

Order of Business. (1 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: The Tánaiste wants to answer.

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (1 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Question 11: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views of the recent report from the OECD that suggests that the current statutory retirement age should be scrapped and that persons, in certain circumstances, should be permitted to work until 85; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37198/05]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (1 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Question 97: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the Government is considering giving persons the option of deferring claiming pensions until the age of 70; the basis on which that would be done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37199/05]

Order of Business. (6 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: My party will not agree to the guillotining of the debate on the proposed new regime for inland fisheries, which is bitterly opposed by many anglers and communities throughout the country. The least we should have is a full scale debate on this important matter and the report that underpins it by Farrell Grant Sparks, but that is not happening. We have only 25 minutes to try to change a...

Order of Business. (6 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Is the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources rewriting it?

Regional Fisheries Boards (Postponement of Elections) Order 2005: Motion. (6 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: It is regrettable that the Farrell Grant Sparks review of the inland fisheries sector and the issue of the postponement of the elections to the fisheries boards were not brought before the Dáil last spring when the report was available so that Members would have a full opportunity to give proper and careful consideration to measures proposed to bring about a massive transformation of how our...

Written Answers — Work-Life Balance: Work-Life Balance (6 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Question 115: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to reports of research indicating that job satisfaction has a particular influence on mental health; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that depression and anxiety are the most common reasons for absenteeism; if specific measures have been taken by his Department to alert...

Written Answers — Mergers and Acquisitions: Mergers and Acquisitions (6 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Question 118: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the implications for the Irish cable TV and Internet sector on the recent approval by the Competition Authority of the acquisition of NTL by Liberty Global; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34345/05]