Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Interim Report on National Climate Change Policy: Discussion with NESC

2:55 pm

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

If we increased the grant from €3,000 to €8,000, which the report states, we could possibly do that. The plastic bag levy was effective for environmental reasons and in terms of how that money was spent. If we took part of the carbon tax and targeted it towards retrofitting, increasing the insulation of homes would reduce our carbon footprint effectively.

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