Results 5,021-5,040 of 7,278 for speaker:Dick Roche
- Recycling Policy. (29 Nov 2005)
Dick Roche: A total of 482,000 tonnes were handled by packaging waste over the period mentioned. The Deputy is making a very interesting point. When we looked at the electric waste directive, we adopted a different approach by using visible fees. The issue raised by the Deputy will have to be discussed by the strategy group.
- Nuclear Safety. (29 Nov 2005)
Dick Roche: Deputy O'Dowd is to be complimented because he is certainly on the ball. The Prime Minister has just recently made another speech on this issue.
- Nuclear Safety. (29 Nov 2005)
Dick Roche: The UK White Paper on Energy in 2003 contained no proposals for new nuclear capacity but the option was not ruled out. It was stated that new nuclear plant might be necessary in the future to meet UK carbon commitments related to climate change. The paper envisaged full public consultation before making any decision. However, earlier today, Prime Minister Blair announced a review of the UK's...
- Nuclear Safety. (29 Nov 2005)
Dick Roche: Powerful as I am, I cannot control headlines in The Irish Times.
- Nuclear Safety. (29 Nov 2005)
Dick Roche: Deputy McCormack is beginning to sound like a broken record or a corncrake.
- Nuclear Safety. (29 Nov 2005)
Dick Roche: I am grateful that Deputy O'Dowd considers me to be sufficiently powerful to dictate a headline in The Irish Times.
- Nuclear Safety. (29 Nov 2005)
Dick Roche: As I stated to the Deputy, a review was announced today which will be published in 2006. As I have indicated, if any proposals for rebuilding emerge, there will be consultations with stakeholders. As I have indicated further, Ireland will be active in opposition in that regard. The characterisation of my position in any other way is incorrect. I am sure it was accidental.
- Nuclear Safety. (29 Nov 2005)
Dick Roche: As for freedom of information, Deputy O'Dowd's suggestion that I am anything other than interested in it is bizarre, given that I introduced a Freedom of Information Bill in the Seanad while a Member of that House.
- Nuclear Safety. (29 Nov 2005)
Dick Roche: Deputy O'Dowd is aware that the Minister of the day does not intervene in the processing of freedom of information requests and it is untruthful to suggest otherwise. He is also aware that freedom of information decisions are made by a designated officer, that I would not necessarily be familiar with a particular request and that issues of correspondence between Governments tend to be treated...
- Nuclear Safety. (29 Nov 2005)
Dick Roche: I remind the Deputy that he asked whether I intended to meet the British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair, and his Ministers. I have already met one of his Ministers as well as the decommissioning authority. I am committed to ongoing meetings. As the Deputy is aware, my Department and the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland are involved in continual contacts. While the suggestion that...
- Nuclear Safety. (29 Nov 2005)
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- Nuclear Safety. (29 Nov 2005)
Dick Roche: ââthat I will continue to devote my energies to this issue. If the Deputy believes he has ideas as to how No. 10 Downing Street could be assailed, I would be pleased to consult him.
- Nuclear Safety. (29 Nov 2005)
Dick Roche: The House corncrake is at it again.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (29 Nov 2005)
Dick Roche: The national climate change strategy sets out Ireland's approach to meeting its target for the purpose of the Kyoto Protocol, which is to limit the growth in greenhouse gas emissions to 13% above 1990 levels in the 2008 to 2012 commitment period. It was projected that, in the absence of any measures to address the problem, Ireland's emissions in that period could be some 37% above 1990...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (29 Nov 2005)
Dick Roche: As for the figure of â¬55.5 million, it was calculated on the basis of â¬15 per unit for the period from 2008 to 2012.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (29 Nov 2005)
Dick Roche: While I know that the Deputy is comfortable with worst case scenarios, that isââ
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (29 Nov 2005)
Dick Roche: It is on the basis of a figure of â¬15 per carbon unit in the period specified. As I stated in the final sentence of my reply, the ultimate cost to the Exchequer will depend on the final purchasing requirement and the price of carbon credits during the time when they are calculated. As for the Deputy's query whether it would be annualised, the answer is "No". As the Deputy is aware, the...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (29 Nov 2005)
Dick Roche: That is the most extraordinary distortion of the reality. As Deputy Gilmore well knows, under the Kyoto Protocol there are many different ways in which a state party to the protocol can reach its targets.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (29 Nov 2005)
Dick Roche: Including buying, that is correct.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (29 Nov 2005)
Dick Roche: When the Government buys anything, it does so using taxpayers' money. If the Deputy had the forbearance to let me finish my sentence, I would inform him that there is a logic to the process, as he knows. One can either go the most economically costly way or, alternatively, buy green credits, from a developing country for example. This process in envisaged and central to the protocol. The...