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

Dick Roche: The EU Heads of Government set a mandatory, self-imposed target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020 and adopted a negotiating position to require developed states to establish a 30% reduction target. Are we a leader or a follower? We were involved in that process and it is disingenuous of Deputy Cuffe to suggest otherwise as he is aware that Ireland was one of the first...

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

Dick Roche: Has the Deputy read the amendment?

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

Dick Roche: Deputy Cuffe is right in one thing. This is certainly a radical proposition. I asked if the amendment had been read. The amendment proposes that we would limit the amount of carbon purchases in this country to an average of 700,000 tonnes per year. Deputy Durkan said we should have policies that would not close business. If we were to do what this amendment asks, we would put a further...

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

Dick Roche: We are in the House to make law.

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

Dick Roche: The Deputy is generous in accepting it. That is the reason I asked if the other Deputies had read it. Clearly they had not read it. I accept the point the Deputy has made. The general point I have made is that this is a framework Bill which allows for a process to go into operation. I made this point during the course of the discussion. The Bill provides a framework within which the...

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

Dick Roche: The polluter, if the Deputy is honest about it, and he is an honest man, I am not suggesting otherwise, is us all; it is every citizen. When we light a fire, turn on our car, switch on a light and leave it shining for an excessive period, or forget to switch the television off at night we are all polluters. One way or another, we all must meet the charge of this, which is one of the good...

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

Dick Roche: I let Deputy Cuffe speak. I respect him so I ask him to let me speak. The point I was making was that we are all polluters and must pay. There is no free way out of this, no matter what way one does it. If one does it this way, there is a cost to be picked up. If we do it Deputy Cuffe's way, there is a cost to be picked up. There is no free way out of this. If Deputy Cuffe wants to...

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

Dick Roche: To be fair, the Deputy has, on several occasions, suggested this.

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

Dick Roche: We are now getting to the core. To be fair to Deputy Cuffe, he has been straightforward in this regard. He has indicated that companies like the aluminium plant operating in the west of Ireland should be forced to bear a higher burden. However, I disagree with him. I do not believe that throwing up to 1,000 people out of work in Ireland is a good response to climate change. There are...

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

Dick Roche: It is difficult to know where to start. Both Deputies Cuffe and Morgan suggested the real culprit is industry. Let us look at the facts. A total of 16% of emissions in 2004 came from industry. It would be outrageous to impose 100% of the burden on a sector that produces 16% of emissions.

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

Dick Roche: The Deputies should bear with me.

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

Dick Roche: A total of 10% of emissions comes from the residential sector, 25% comes from the energy sector, 29% comes from agriculture, 18% from transport and 3% from waste. Deputy Cuffe made the point that the position supports the dinosaurs. That is colourful language. Deputy Morgan suggested the purchase of carbon credits is the totality of the response. With respect, both Deputies are wrong. The...

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

Dick Roche: In the Irish case, what that cut amounts to is that these 109 enterprises and bodies within the emissions trading scheme must cut their emissions by 3 million tonnes. It is not a subsidy and it is perverse to suggest it is.

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

Dick Roche: As Deputy Gilmore said, we had a lengthy discussion on this. The net effect of the amendment would be that each and every time the NTMA, the body registered to buy carbon credits, wished to make a purchase, we would have to put a formal motion before the Dáil. That is wildly impractical for a variety of reasons. We have already had two debates on the purchase of €20 million of targets....

Seanad: National Climate Change Strategy 2000: Motion (21 Mar 2007)

Dick Roche: On a point of information, the White Paper outlines an ambitious project to move from turf burning to cofiring. What the Deputy said is right.

Seanad: National Climate Change Strategy 2000: Motion (21 Mar 2007)

Dick Roche: I hope the Senator cycled.

Seanad: National Climate Change Strategy 2000: Motion (21 Mar 2007)

Dick Roche: Poor man.

Seanad: National Climate Change Strategy 2000: Motion (21 Mar 2007)

Dick Roche: Was it mouth to mouth resuscitation?

Seanad: National Climate Change Strategy 2000: Motion (21 Mar 2007)

Dick Roche: Yes, they are on their return journey.

Seanad: National Climate Change Strategy 2000: Motion (21 Mar 2007)

Dick Roche: That is right.