Shane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is fine, Chairman. If the Department increases tax on lower emissions vehicles, it will quite rightly be criticised by environmental groups that are trying to support that industry. That means the money has to be raised elsewhere. The officials are going to have to say to the Minister that we had better raise it from local property tax, LPT, or commercial businesses. Everyone has to be talking together because, as the Chairman pointed out, there are multiple strands of funding coming in. What I am interested in is who is talking to everyone to make sure that enough money comes in to run the system, when there clearly is not enough money in the first place. Has increasing taxes on lower emissions vehicles been ruled out? Where are the officials going to find the quarter of a billion that the Comptroller and Auditor General said is going to disappear from the books?