1647. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the increase in recent years of the use of coal as a power generation fuel and its contribution to the overall carbon content of the electricity generation fuels; his further views on whether as consumers here are paying subsidies through REFIT to decarbonise the power sector the buying of cheap high impact imported coal would appear to be inconsistent and contradictory to the decarbonisation strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34210/14]

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1647. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the increase in recent years of the use of coal as a power generation fuel and its contribution to the overall carbon content of the electricity generation fuels; his further views on whether as consumers here are paying subsidies through REFIT to decarbonise the power sector the buying of cheap high impact imported coal would appear to be inconsistent and contradictory to the decarbonisation strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34210/14]

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