Results 2,521-2,540 of 7,278 for speaker:Dick Roche
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (8 Nov 2006)
Dick Roche: Our greenhouse gas emissions have grown by 23%, 10% above the indicative rate of 13%, which we have to reach.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (8 Nov 2006)
Dick Roche: Yes, we have.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (8 Nov 2006)
Dick Roche: Let me give the Deputy some indications.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (8 Nov 2006)
Dick Roche: I will give the Deputy the exact figures. In industry we are well on the way to meeting the 3 million tonnes target. That is accepted.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (8 Nov 2006)
Dick Roche: I will deal with that too if the Deputy allows me. If he stops asking questions I will answer them. CAP reforms will reduce carbon emissions. We are in the process of reducing by 2.4 million tonnes. There has been a significant reduction.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (8 Nov 2006)
Dick Roche: We have to reduce our indicative figureââ
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (8 Nov 2006)
Dick Roche: Our indicative figure is to get down to 15 million tonnes below the projected figure, that is, down to 63 million tonnes by the indicative period. We will get down to that figure.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (8 Nov 2006)
Dick Roche: That is the figure we have to get to.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (8 Nov 2006)
Dick Roche: That is correct, there is a lot done and there is more to do. I accept that.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (8 Nov 2006)
Dick Roche: In energy, we have already had significant savings. We are down towards 1.3 million tonnes over a variety of sources. Industry is well on target. In the CAP, for example, the nitrates and the other programme will reduce by 2.7 million tonnes, forestry will reduce by 2.8 million tonnes. We are talking about the future, 2012.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (8 Nov 2006)
Dick Roche: That is correct. The period within which we have to reach the target is between 2008 and 2012, and we have not reached 2008.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (8 Nov 2006)
Dick Roche: In fact, the building regulations will take 300,000 tonnes off.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (8 Nov 2006)
Dick Roche: Deputy Cuffe asked specifically about transport. Transport savings are already 500ââ
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (8 Nov 2006)
Dick Roche: It will be before the end of this year.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (8 Nov 2006)
Dick Roche: That is what we are working towards. I am sorry, I did not mean to ignore the Deputy when giving other information.
- National Climate Change Strategy. (8 Nov 2006)
Dick Roche: The Government has put in place a range of measures which, collectively, will deliver an average 14.6 million tonne reduction in greenhouse gas emissions during the period 2008 to 2012, over which our compliance with the Kyoto Protocol will be assessed. That is the point I was making to Deputy Gilmore but he was not listening. Measures which will give a total of 8 million tonnes include...
- National Climate Change Strategy. (8 Nov 2006)
Dick Roche: In regard to Deputy Cuffe's question on whether there were multiple responses, one NGO had people send the same response several hundred times. That counts as one response.
- National Climate Change Strategy. (8 Nov 2006)
Dick Roche: The same submission was sent several hundred times.
- National Climate Change Strategy. (8 Nov 2006)
Dick Roche: A submission with the same wording was sent by different individuals.
- National Climate Change Strategy. (8 Nov 2006)
Dick Roche: The Deputy's statement is somewhat foolhardy.