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Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: ——but also in respect of ozone, municipal waste and acidifying substances.

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The report is blunt about the wider implications of the failure to curb carbon emissions and warns that extreme weather will lead to loss of life and lifestyle as well as to severe economic problems on a global scale. When a team ends up at the bottom of the league table, has been consistently at the bottom over a long period——

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: ——and is losing matches and getting red cards from the European Commission——

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: ——regarding all kinds of environmental matters——

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: ——the manager's position comes into focus.

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister's time is up. Since 1980, 64% of catastrophic events have been attributable to weather and climate extremes. The European Environment Agency report singles Ireland out for comment on carbon emissions, stating that we face a major challenge if we are to meet our Kyoto Protocol limit of 13% above our 1990 level. This holds true in the week that the parties to the protocol meet in...

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: An opportunity presented itself to build these dwellings in an energy-efficient way.

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The European directive on the energy performance of buildings, which will introduce the energy labelling of buildings, is supposed to be implemented on 1 January 2006, but the Government is looking for a derogation in respect of it. It wants three more years, in which it will build more dwellings with nine-inch cavity blocks to a standard that will cause expense and grief to those who buy...

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: It is wrong to look at the Kyoto Protocol targets and the issue of the climate change strategy in a negative way. They would provide a great opportunity for this country if we had a Government with the imagination and will to act upon them. I refer to the opportunity and challenge to become self-sufficient in energy production, to change our agricultural focus from the production of food to...

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy will have to do more work than that before he gets to the chapel gate.

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 128: To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons within each unit or State agency of his Department who have opted to move to the proposed new location for their unit; the number of other Dublin-based employees of his Department who have opted to move to one of the decentralising units within his Department; the number of persons who have to date in 2005 been assigned to each of the...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 180: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons within each unit or State agency of her Department who have opted to move to the proposed new location for their unit; the number of other Dublin based employees of her Department who have opted to move to one of the decentralising units within her Department; the number of persons who have to date...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 208: To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends to review the existing tax incentives in the housing sector following the assertion of the An Bord Pleanála chairman that inadequate design resources were being employed for many of the schemes being constructed to avail of such incentives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36694/05]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 219: To ask the Minister for Finance the framework for greenhouse gas taxation; if same has been put in place since 2002; the greenhouse gas taxes which have been introduced or which are contemplated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36731/05]

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 220: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons within each unit or State agency of his Department who have opted to move to the proposed new location for their unit; the number of other Dublin based employees of his Department who have opted to move to one of the decentralising units within his Department; the number of persons who have to date in 2005 been assigned to...

Written Answers — Energy Resources: Energy Resources (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 229: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the steps he intends to take to increase the provision of renewable energy following the report from the Commission for Energy Regulation in 2005 which estimates that the cost of electricity is set to rise significantly due to higher fuel costs and rising carbon emission costs. [36692/05]

Written Answers — Energy Resources: Energy Resources (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 235: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when the Government intends that coal firing at Moneypoint should cease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36721/05]

Written Answers — Electricity Generation: Electricity Generation (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 236: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the increase which has occurred since 2000 in the generation of electricity from CHP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36723/05]

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 237: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the number of persons within each unit or agency of his Department who have opted to move to the proposed new location for their unit; the number of other Dublin-based employees of his Department who have opted to move to one of the decentralising units within his Department; the number of persons who have, to...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 248: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of persons within each unit or agency of his Department who have opted to move to the proposed new location for their unit; the number of other Dublin-based employees of his Department who have opted to move to one of the decentralising units within his Department; the number of persons who have to date in 2005 been assigned to...