John Perry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 170: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if some of the moneys being used to purchase carbon credits abroad will be used here to encourage research and development into climate change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7439/07]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The Government has already committed significant funding to research and development into topics related to climate change, including €6.9 million through the Environmental Research, Technological Development and Innovation Programme (ERTDI), funded under the National Development Plan 2000-2006. Further funding is proposed for climate change related research under the Science, Technology and Innovation Programme in the current National Development Plan, in line with the Strategy for Science, Technology and Innovation. I will announce further funding for climate change research when I publish a revised National Climate Change Strategy in April 2007.