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Draft edition of new climate law to be published next week

Phil Hogan says the draft heads of a Carbon Development Bill should be brought for cabinet approval next Tuesday.

THE FIRST DRAFT of proposed legislation binding Ireland to key emissions targets could be published as early as next week.

Environment minister Phil Hogan has said that the draft heads of a Carbon Development Bill are in the final stages of development and may be ready to bring to the cabinet by next Tuesday.

Hogan said the Bill was being compiled following feedback from the secretariat of the National Economic and Social Council, which has been compiled as part of a national climate policy review announced in late 2011.

“I think no-one is in any doubt about the extent of the challenge that lies ahead,” Hogan said.

Hogan made the comments during a Dáil debate yesterday on a climate Bill brought forward by independent TD Catherine Murphy.

The government said it would oppose Murphy’s Bill because it would “circumvent” the role given to the Oireachtas environment committee in compiling the new policy.

Murphy’s legislation would have required the government to cut Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions so that the total emissions by 2030 were less than 60 per cent of those recorded in 1990. By 2050, this would be lowered to 20 per cent of 1990 levels.

“If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it is a duck,” Murphy told the Dáil. “If we’re looking at massive change in our weather systems, it’s telling us something, and it’s very very expensive to overcome any of that.

There’s been some very good – and expensive – work done by the OPW in overcoming some of the problems, but we can’t keep doing that – we have to prevent it – and preventing it means we’ve got to deal with these obligations and see ourselves as part of the international community in doing it.

Murphy’s legislation – the Energy Security and Climate Change Bill 2012, which borrows aspects of a draft Bill from the previous government – will face a Dáil vote on Tuesday, when it will almost certainly be defeated.

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    Feb 17th 2012, 7:14 PM

    Gardai are keen to speak to owner of the account “select username, password from user” about the intrusion. First data on laptops, now this. Bad week for Eircom. Tut tut.

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    Feb 17th 2012, 11:53 PM

    Compliance in quarter are gonna be checking Irishjobs.ie on Monday….

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    Feb 17th 2012, 7:25 PM

    It seems eircom can be trusted, there are secondary year students that know how to secure data better then eircom does for its customers,

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    Feb 17th 2012, 7:21 PM

    Another breach of data where will it end?

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    Feb 18th 2012, 8:19 AM

    When Sean Sherlock gets his wish granted by the ACTA genie.

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    Feb 17th 2012, 8:18 PM

    StudyHub uses email addresses as user names so it’s quite a serious breach, given the number of people who have one password for multiple accounts. My junior-cert student came to me today and was all ‘daaad, stupidhub isn’t working!’.

    It’s probably just as well, although still laughable, that Eircom require you to register separately for MusicHub; SportsHub; StudyHub; Support and for your Eircom account, i.e. 5 times.

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    Feb 17th 2012, 8:45 PM

    Looks like someone wasn’t sanitising their inputs! Boom! I bet it was little Bobby Droptables… :)

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    Feb 18th 2012, 2:42 PM

    Those who thumbed-down this comment clearly aren’t from the Internet :)

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    Feb 18th 2012, 7:55 AM

    Eircom have got to be one of the most inept ISPs out there. Where will it all end? Amateurs.

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    Feb 18th 2012, 2:10 AM

    At least it didn’t take the incompetents 6weeks or more to admit this intrusion and inform customers and report it to the data protection crowd.

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    Feb 18th 2012, 2:40 PM

    I really wish the media would stop using the word “hack” to describe cyber security breaches. These are known as “attacks” or “cracks” by data security experts. The definition of hacking is completely different and unrelated to illegal activity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(programmer_subculture)

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