Kevin Humphreys (Dublin South East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Page 246 of the report states: "[L]evying a carbon tax is more supportive of economic growth and employment than increasing income tax". That is a fairly definite statement. Would it be it progressive, in looking at a levying a carbon tax, to ring-fence that and target it directly at people experiencing fuel poverty and at retrofitting many of our buildings and homes which were built in the 1950s and 1960s to very low standards to reduce their energy consumption?