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Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (22 Mar 2007)

Ciarán Cuffe: I seek leave to move the adjournment of the Dáil on a specific and urgent matter of national importance, namely, the water supply in Galway, and that the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government be called before the House to explain the inordinate delay in progressing the Water Services Bill 2004 through this House given that it would address the licensing, monitoring and...

Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (21 Mar 2007)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the continuing violence in Iraq and on possible solutions to the conflict. [10384/07]

Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (21 Mar 2007)

Ciarán Cuffe: I move amendment No. 5: In page 6, between lines 42 and 43, to insert the following: 10.—(1) That Ireland, in co-operation with our fellow members of the European Union and the OECD, will provide a lead in reducing our own level of emissions. (2) To this end the Government commits itself to reducing the level of recorded greenhouse gas emissions within the country by 15 to 30 per cent by...

Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (21 Mar 2007)

Ciarán Cuffe: Is the Minister leading or following?

Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (21 Mar 2007)

Ciarán Cuffe: At the risk of straining the metaphor, in terms of emissions the good ship Ireland is not the flagship of the fleet. It is, as Deputy Gilmore pointed out, a leaky old tub but Captain Roche has appeared and said all is fine because he met a fellow who will get us a few pumps from Kazakhstan and patch up some of the other ships. I suggest we fix the good ship Ireland's emissions, patch up the...

Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (21 Mar 2007)

Ciarán Cuffe: I welcome Deputy Gilmore's amendments. We need a Bill that is radically different from what the Minister is proposing which is that taxpayers foot the bill for Government ineptitude. Not only that but the taxpayers' children and their children's children will have to pick up the tab for climate change. Now is the time for action not words. As the media rightly pointed out during the past...

Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (21 Mar 2007)

Ciarán Cuffe: I feel strongly on this issue and I respect your judgment. We need to make radical changes now. That is what Sir Nicholas Stern is telling us to do and the Minister is misquoting him for his own purpose by suggesting that carbon trading is fine. Yes, it is in the short term but not in the long term. What the Minister is doing is committing the Irish taxpayer to forking out €270 million...

Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (21 Mar 2007)

Ciarán Cuffe: The polluters should pay rather than the taxpayers.

Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (21 Mar 2007)

Ciarán Cuffe: The Minister is not rewarding good behaviour.

Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (21 Mar 2007)

Ciarán Cuffe: I do.

Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (21 Mar 2007)

Ciarán Cuffe: I am suggesting that.

Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (21 Mar 2007)

Ciarán Cuffe: I am unfamiliar with amendment No. a1, of which I did not receive a copy. I thought we were addressing amendment No. 1. It is rather unusual to use an amendment No. a1 in the grouping. I will take up the principal point of contention between the Minister and me. The Minister wishes to subsidise the dinosaurs. The Green Party is suggesting that we do not subsidise dinosaurs and instead...

Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (21 Mar 2007)

Ciarán Cuffe: Nobody is suggesting that.

Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (21 Mar 2007)

Ciarán Cuffe: The Minister is not in the L&H now.

Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (21 Mar 2007)

Ciarán Cuffe: It gives them a carbon allowance for free.

Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (21 Mar 2007)

Ciarán Cuffe: In effect, 95% of their emissions are free.

Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (21 Mar 2007)

Ciarán Cuffe: Will we get a chance to kick the tyres of the Kyoto units that we are to buy? By that, I mean to ask what discretion we will have over what we buy into. Are we simply buying into an international market with no discretion? My reading suggests that there is some involvement on the part of the Environmental Protection Agency in vetting the clean development mechanism projects in which...

Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (21 Mar 2007)

Ciarán Cuffe: It is more to do with discretion and the lack of any mechanism to pick and choose based on advice that might not be given under the proposed legislation. Where is our chance to pick and choose and does that possibility arise in the Bill?

Nuclear Disarmament. (21 Mar 2007)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 88: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on his meeting in February 2007 in Dublin with Dr. Mohamed El Baradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10383/07]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (20 Mar 2007)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 140: To ask the Minister for Finance the status of attempts by the European Commission to harmonise corporate tax rates in the European Union. [10153/07]