Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)
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Question 248: To ask the Minister for Transport whether he has received and reviewed the second greenhouse gas study of the International Maritime Organisation; his views on the way maritime emissions should be assessed in the upcoming successor to the Kyoto Protocol to be agreed in Copenhagen in December 2009; if he will report on the level of maritime greenhouse gas emissions here in 2005, 2006 , 2007 and 2008; the measures in place to target the CO2 emissions in the maritime sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21647/09]

Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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The study has recently been received in my Department and its contents are currently being reviewed.

As regards the way maritime emissions should be assessed in the upcoming successor to the Kyoto Protocol to be agreed in Copenhagen in December 2009, Ireland supports the adoption of a mandatory CO2 Design Index for Ships and the development of market-based measures. This has been the subject of ongoing discussion at working group level in the IMO and with our EU partners.

The Environmental Protection Agency figures for marine bunker CO2 emissions for Ireland are as follows: 2005 - 330.25 kilotonnes 2006 - 404.11 kt 2007 - 356.84 kt

Data in relation to 2008 is provisional. Emissions are provisionally estimated to be 213.77 kt.

There are no measures in place at present to directly target global maritime CO2 emissions. If no agreement is reached in the IMO Ireland will work within the EU on the development of suitable measures for Europe.