Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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Question 657: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the steps she has taken to offset the carbon dioxide emissions caused by ministerial travel in her Department; and if none to date, the plans she will put in place on the matter. [34260/07]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The setting of policy in relation to the offsetting of carbon dioxide emissions from Ministerial travel is a matter, in the first instance, for my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. I understand that he, on foot of the commitment in the Programme for Government on carbon offsetting official air travel, is developing a scheme for use by all Government Departments and bodies under their aegis and that he intends to announce details of the scheme shortly.