Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 8 March 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes
9:00 am
Mr. Graham Doyle:
In terms of issues around taxation of vehicles, the introduction of the taxation rates based on CO2 emissions rather than engine size was designed to drive the take-up of vehicles that produced lower emissions. It has been tremendously successful in doing so, to the extent that there was quite a quick change in consumer behaviour which has continued over time. In the context of climate change issues, we are now looking at introducing lots of different types of vehicles into the system-----
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