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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Leo Varadkar: In any given year, approximately 100,000 people buy a car or change their car. We could reach the point where more and more of those cars are hybrids or electric. Of course, there are also business vehicles-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Leo Varadkar: -----which could be hybrids or electric. On the Dublin City Council manager's comments on trees, I assume he did not mean them. It was probably a little flippant or figurative but I cannot speak for him.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Leo Varadkar: I cannot disown them because he is not my employee. The city council, as the Deputy will know, is controlled by Fianna Fáil, the Labour Party, the Green Party and the Social Democrats. They have an opportunity to disown him if they wish, censure him if they wish and, more importantly, if they wish, do the opposite of what he has proposed, by planting more trees rather than knocking...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Leo Varadkar: In this city, I said. The major cause for the air quality problem in Ireland is diesel cars, not smoky coal.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Leo Varadkar: In Enniscorthy, for example, the problem is largely due to peat and briquettes-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Leo Varadkar: People who know Enniscorthy well will know that it has much more to do with peat and briquettes than with smoky coal.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Leo Varadkar: If we were to ban smoky coal and people changed to peat or briquettes, it would make the air quality worse.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Leo Varadkar: We need to look at such matters-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Leo Varadkar: -----in the round. It is already open to local authorities to implement-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Leo Varadkar: -----bans on a local basis if they wish to do so, subject to ministerial order. If the objective is better air quality, people shifting-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Leo Varadkar: -----from coal to peat or briquettes will make the air quality worse.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Leo Varadkar: We need to fess up to that. On climate action, I agree with the comments made by Deputies. It is not, and cannot be, just about individual action. It has to be Government led. Individual action cannot change our energy systems. Only governments can do that. We have announced we will take peat out of the system in 2023, much earlier than planned. Coal will come off the grid in 2025 and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Leo Varadkar: It must be led by the Government, but businesses, too, have to act to take into account the rising cost of carbon and to change how they operate. Individuals can also make a contribution, which they want to do. People I meet want to make a contribution to reducing our emissions, and more and more people are doing that. On rail electrification, we already have plans to electrify the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Leo Varadkar: I missed the question. I am sorry I did not get the chance to respond.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Leo Varadkar: I will check it out but I know-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Leo Varadkar: Does the Deputy not want the answer?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Leo Varadkar: The question to be asked is whether I will report on the latest meeting of the inner city forum, and I am happy to answer it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Leo Varadkar: I am in the Deputies' hands.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Leo Varadkar: That is fine with me.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)
Leo Varadkar: On what?