Mr. Robert Watt:

Some of the work has been done. Mr. Moran and Mr. McCarthy mentioned taxation. We have work done by the Department of Finance and the ESRI on the distribution impacts of carbon tax. We know from the Living in Ireland Survey how much people spend in different types of households as per different income deciles so we can work out the distributional impact of a carbon tax without changes to the fuel allowance, which has been mentioned.

It depends on the nature of the policy. If one was to say to us here are five or ten policies and go off and figure out what the effects would be, we would have a reasonable stab at working out what the distributional effects would be. That is the ongoing work.