I call Deputy Brassil.

Following the Taoiseach's announcement yesterday concerning measures to meet our climate change targets, I bring to his attention the fact that engines known as Euro 4 and Euro 5 can still be imported into this country. This is despite the fact that they emit approximately double the amount of CO2 that more modern engines emit.

I ask that the Taoiseach examine bringing in an immediate ban on Euro 4 and Euro 5 engines as they are contrary to all good practice with regard to climate change.

Deputy Danny Healy-Rae on the same issue.

The Deputy does not believe in climate change.

This policy and indeed all the hullabaloo yesterday has frightened many people again in rural Ireland. There is a race between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil to see who would be greener than the Greens. The headline in the paper was that the Government wants to force private motorists out of their cars. I want to tell the Taoiseach that people in rural Ireland cannot manage without a car.

Electric cars.

A lot of the Government's ideas are ridiculous and so are its targets. There are 4.8 million people in Ireland, which equates to 0.06% of the world population. India and China equate to 40% of the world's population. If we were totally emissions free, it would only equal 0.13 of 1% in the worldwide context.

Leave it to somebody else.

At the same time, we are all living under the same sky. Why is the Government imposing and suggesting these targets for people, especially working families and farmers in rural Ireland?

Please, Deputy, you are over time.

This is very unfair.

Does the Government know it is frightening the daylights out of the people? It has already blackguarded them badly enough.

Please Deputy, you are over time.

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are joined in this. They are tripping over each other to see who will be greener than the Greens.

The Deputy should resume his seat. He has made his point.

That was not on the same issue as Deputy Brassil's question.

I wish to offer the Deputy an assurance in this regard. It is not the policy of Government to force people out of private cars. It is the policy of Government to move away from petrol and diesel cars-----

The Minister said he wanted to force private motorists out of their cars.

I would like to tell the Deputy what the policy of Government is because it is not what he thinks it is. It is the policy of Government not to force people out of their private cars but rather to move from petrol and diesel cars to hybrids and electric vehicles over the course of the next decade. That can be done. People in rural areas can use hybrids and increasingly will be able to use electric vehicles as well. I saw the Deputy brandishing a headline from a newspaper. That is not a quote from the Minister. Unfortunately it is now allowed to put something in inverted commas in a headline that is not actually a quote. That is what we are dealing with these days.