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Ireland’s Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe (PA)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Paschal Donohoe has said he will not pressure the US to do more to tackle climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Minister for Finance was speaking as US treasury secretary Janet Yellen arrived in Dublin for a series of engagements, including a meeting with Mr Donohoe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

World leaders are also meeting at the Cop26 climate change conference in Glasgow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Donohoe praised the close relationship between Ireland and Joe Biden\u2019s administration, but played down any suggestion he might ask the US to do more to reduce carbon emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be reviewing where we are in Ireland with regards to how we want to reduce our carbon emissions. And I think when we all need to do so much together, I think we should shy away really from making lectures or describing difficulties that other countries may have,\u201d he said on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPresident Biden and secretary Yellen are very much aware of the obligation that the United States has to reduce its carbon emissions, as I am as a member of the Irish Government for Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd I think we\u2019ll be focusing on what we can do together and acknowledging the great difficulty that there are at times in executing what we want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Donohoe said he will not be among the Irish ministers attending Cop26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Finance Bill for the Budget is beginning this week. That Finance Bill includes measures to increase carbon taxation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI believe these are the kinds of concrete and practical contributions we can make here in Ireland to how we do better from a carbon point of view, and the Government will be represented by a range of other members of Government during that time,\u201d he told RT\u00c9 radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe breadth of Government ministers that are attending speaks to the importance that we place on what is happening in Glasgow. I need to bring in our budgetary legislation this week into the D\u00e1il, and given the fact that carbon taxation is a very important element of that I think my time is best spent doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Donohoe was asked whether he regretted overseeing the expansion of Ireland\u2019s dairy herd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf I look back on the last decade, and the many challenges that we have had and faced, the expansion of our dairy herd would not be one of the things that is a cause for the greatest anxiety for me, given all that we\u2019ve gone through over the decades,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He declined to comment on the expectation that agriculture may be asked to cut emissions by between 20%-30% over the next decade, as part of Ireland\u2019s climate targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is the case that we will be asking our farmers to play a role, and an important role, in how we reduce our emissions. But we will be asking everybody to do that. And we\u2019re particularly conscious of the needs and challenges that coupled with Irish farming,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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