Normally, I restrict what goes onto this website to news related to
\nDublin North East and adjoining areas. However there are
\nexceptions and the recent statement by Dick Roche, the FF Minister for
\nthe Environment deserves more attention. The Green Party recently
\nproposed a Climate Change Targets Bill, seeking to take the issue of
\nlong-term climate policy out of the day-to-day short-term approach of
\nelectoral politics and to set long-term targets for greenhouse gas
\nemissions in 2020 and 2050. Agreements on this timescale are
\nessential if we are to avoid a runaway greenhouse effect. <\/p>\n
The reaction by the Government to this attempt to address the biggest
\ncrisis humanity has ever faced? Well, here’s the statement by the
\nMinister for the Environment:<\/p>\n
Madcap Policy Could Cost Thousands Of Jobs<\/strong><\/p>\n \nA Private Members Bill introduced into Dail Eireann by the Green Party The draft legislation, the first piece of legislation introduced in At present Ireland has a set of targets for green house gas emissions, The European Union has been discussing more stringent emissions Key industries, including major employers such as major pharmaceutical While we should not be surprised by the Utopian fantasy land inhabited This is the first foretaste that Ireland has of what could happen, and It is incredible that the Fine Gael Party, which spends so much time Normally, I restrict what goes onto this website to news related to Dublin North East and adjoining areas. However there are exceptions and the recent statement by Dick Roche, the FF Minister for the Environment deserves more attention. The Green Party recently proposed a Climate Change Targets Bill, seeking to take the issue of long-term […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nand supported by Fine Gael and Labour, could cost thousands of jobs in
\nIrish industry, so said Mr. Dick Roche, T.D., Minister for the
\nEnvironment, Heritage and Local Government today (30 November).<\/p>\n
\nDail Eireann by the Green Party with support from Fine Gael and Labour,
\npossible partners in a future Government, attempts to tie the hands of
\nall future Irish Governments to policies in relation to green house gas
\nemissions.<\/p>\n
\nwhich have been established in negotiations with our EU partners and in
\naccordance with the Kyoto Protocol. Recognising that Ireland had
\nto "catch up" to more developed EU States, our European Community
\npartners agreed a set of burden sharing arrangements which provided
\nthat Ireland would limit green house gas emissions to 13% above the
\n1990 levels over the period 2008 – 2012.<\/p>\n
\nrequirements, which will apply beyond 2013 for the Community as a
\nwhole. The Green Party and their colleagues in Fine Gael and the
\nLabour Party are now attempting in law to force the Irish Government
\nand the Irish people to adopt targets in law before any international
\nagreements are reached. The enactment of such legislation could
\nhave a catastrophic effect on Ireland’s economic wellbeing.
\nImposing legally binding stringent emissions targets in Ireland, which
\ndo not apply to any other country in Europe would make it virtually
\nimpossible to win any future Foreign Direct Investment into this
\ncountry.<\/p>\n
\ncompanies and other high energy using companies, would have their
\neconomic viability completely undermined if they thought Ireland was
\ngoing to go alone on such major issues. It is likely that many of
\nthese companies would just up and leave.<\/p>\n
\nby the Green Party, the most incredible aspect of this madcap
\nlegislative proposal is that it was supported actively by Fine Gael and
\nLabour.<\/p>\n
\nwhat would happen, if a Government made up of the Green Party, Fine
\nGael and Labour, were ever to see the light of day.<\/p>\n
\ncautioning us to the necessity of carefully judging value for money in
\nevery proposal, have swallowed the Green Party bait hook, line and
\nsinker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"