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Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)

Eamon Ryan: Our transport emissions are——

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)

Eamon Ryan: ——going up by 7% per annum.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)

Eamon Ryan: What did the Ministers do?

Rail Services. (21 Feb 2007)

Eamon Ryan: The taxpayer is already paying for the carbon fund.

Rail Services. (21 Feb 2007)

Eamon Ryan: I would not as long as the Minister is still there.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (21 Feb 2007)

Eamon Ryan: Question 77: To ask the Minister for Transport the measure he will take to reduce the increasing greenhouse gas emissions for the transport sector here; and his views on whether the current rate of 8% annual increase in emissions will make it difficult for Ireland to comply with the stated European Union target of at least a 20% cut in emissions from 1990 base levels by 2020. [6804/07]

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (21 Feb 2007)

Eamon Ryan: That is dishonest nonsense.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (21 Feb 2007)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister is not following a transport policy that will lead to a reduction in emissions. Instead, the State agency Sustainable Energy Ireland has set out detailed research on what is happening and where we are going. It predicts that by 2020 transport emissions will have increased by 46% on top of the 156% increase in the past 15 years. The Minister's record is one of utter failure in...

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (21 Feb 2007)

Eamon Ryan: I cannot understand how the Minister can propose such plans after the Taoiseach stated this morning that we would meet our European commitment of ensuring a 20% reduction in emissions by 2020.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (21 Feb 2007)

Eamon Ryan: It is patent nonsense and dishonesty. It is Fianna Fáil not telling the people the truth. How will the Government meet the reduction target of 20% below 1990 levels, 45% below current levels, when emissions will increase by another 45% under the Minister's stewardship? How can he combine those figures and give me an honest answer?

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (21 Feb 2007)

Eamon Ryan: None of which would have happened without the environment.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (21 Feb 2007)

Eamon Ryan: We want a Luas system in Galway and Cork.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (21 Feb 2007)

Eamon Ryan: I want a simple answer to my next questions. Does the Minister believe we will be able to meet our European target of reducing emissions to 20% below 1990 levels by 2020 and how does he equate this with the State's predictions that our emissions will be 45% greater by 2020? I cannot believe there is still a Minister who is of the view that there is a choice between the economic and...

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (21 Feb 2007)

Eamon Ryan: The economy is a subset of the environment, not vice versa. If we do not have a planet, there will be no economy. That is the scale of the challenge in the climate change issue. Even if one considers economics alone, the Minister's solution of significant growth in transport emissions will cost the Irish people considerably more because the rest of the world's population will not look on...

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (21 Feb 2007)

Eamon Ryan: Will the Government meet the reduction target?

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (21 Feb 2007)

Eamon Ryan: Some 20% below 1990 levels.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (21 Feb 2007)

Eamon Ryan: How?

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (21 Feb 2007)

Eamon Ryan: I would invest in public transport. Luas lines will provide for the future, not the Minister's motorways which are clogged up.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (21 Feb 2007)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister has said we will achieve the targets set out by the EU. The Taoiseach said this morning that we have signed up to those targets.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (21 Feb 2007)

Eamon Ryan: Is the target to achieve a 20% reduction in our transport emissions on our 1990 levels by 2020?