Preserving the environment and providing recreational living space for people 6. Guarding against shocks and surprises. 2.2 All of these tasks have, however, to be completed in light of the fact of free movement of people and money. If national politics imposes restrictions on the freedom of people or money that are too severe as part of its fulfillment of the roles set out, the people or the money can leave the nation. 2.2 A system must be put in place to ensure that the objectives of the Plan are achieved.
Agriculture is responsible for over a third of emissions.
Steps will also have to be taken to restrict consumption of oil, gas, coal and peat and this will have to be done in a way that ensures that the poor do not suffer disproportionately from the change, as could easily happen. The plan must deal with all the foreseeable physical needs of the nation. Already Ireland is building twice as many new houses per head of population as in other E.U. countries. This is placing immense strain on our stock of roads, buses, schools, recreational amenities, waste disposal facilities etc. It has been estimated that we will have to build 38,000 new houses a year between now and 2006 and 40,000 new houses per year between 2006 and 2011.