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Kyoto Protocol: Motion (3 Apr 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Who has proposed it?

Kyoto Protocol: Motion (3 Apr 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister is deluded. He is away with the fairies.

Kyoto Protocol: Motion (3 Apr 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Who is enthusiastic about it?

Kyoto Protocol: Motion (3 Apr 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister is arguing for the proposals.

Kyoto Protocol: Motion (3 Apr 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: For a man who is always right, the Minister is very wrong on this.

Kyoto Protocol: Motion (3 Apr 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Industry is not the problem.

Kyoto Protocol: Motion (3 Apr 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Why did the Government delay Luas for so long?

Kyoto Protocol: Motion (3 Apr 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: When?

Kyoto Protocol: Motion (3 Apr 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: They are hopes, not facts.

Kyoto Protocol: Motion (3 Apr 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to share my time with Deputy Wall. I compliment Fine Gael on tabling this motion, which is timely in the immediate aftermath of the publication of the Government's repeated attempt at a national climate change strategy.

Kyoto Protocol: Motion (3 Apr 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: The Labour Party supports the Fine Gael motion. I was interested to hear the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Deputy Noel Dempsey, speaking about what he called the reheat programme and on credibility. I will speak briefly about both and will turn to the issue of reheating first. This is government by microwave. As it is too late for the Government to cook up...

Kyoto Protocol: Motion (3 Apr 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: ——on any area of policy one cares to mention, it digs out the old stuff, stirs it around a little, sticks it in the microwave, takes it out and pretends there is something new in it.

Kyoto Protocol: Motion (3 Apr 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Nowhere is this more evident than in respect of the climate change document that was published yesterday. If anything, the document published by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Roche, is even less ambitious than that published by his predecessor, the Minister, Deputy Noel Dempsey, in 2000.

Kyoto Protocol: Motion (3 Apr 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I have read both. Admittedly, three years——

Kyoto Protocol: Motion (3 Apr 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Roche, is not the only Member who can read.

Kyoto Protocol: Motion (3 Apr 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: The issue of credibility——

Kyoto Protocol: Motion (3 Apr 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources should not go there. There is an issue in respect of credibility.

Kyoto Protocol: Motion (3 Apr 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Given the Government's record on the old climate change strategy, producing a new one is simply not credible. When the old climate change strategy document was produced in 2000, Ireland was 21% above the Kyoto Protocol limits. Its objective was to reduce that figure by eight percentage points and get it down to 13%. However, the Government only succeeded in going in the other direction and...

Kyoto Protocol: Motion (3 Apr 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: One would think that they had not been in Government at all because the list of measures they will take——

Kyoto Protocol: Motion (3 Apr 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: —— is a list of measures they have not done in the past ten years.