Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

A feature we have become aware of with the onset of Brexit is that we have a massive number of used car imports from the UK. How is that impacting on our excise situation? It is a phenomenal number. To some extent we seem to be becoming a single market in that people can purchase a new car in Belfast and it appears in Dublin at a related garage. It seems a better deal could be done in those circumstances by the people who are promoting this. Does that have implications? Are we unique in the transport-related tax we have? Our Green Party colleagues sometimes underestimate this. We have had incredible excise taxes in terms of vehicles. We have a fairly dispersed population that needs to be able to get in and out to the village and so on and so forth. Are we unique in that there is so much emphasis on excise in transport?