Mr. Gerry Kenny:

I presume that our colleagues in the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment will deal with this question better than I will. The Minister and the Taoiseach have stated that any additional revenue raised from the carbon tax will be treated differently than revenues raised in the normal course of events. In other words, it will not go to the Exchequer for general expenditure measures. If there is an increase in carbon tax, the Minister and the Taoiseach are saying that revenues will be available to encourage people or mitigate against the increase in carbon tax for people who are in fuel poverty or, as Senator Mulherin mentioned, have transport deficits. That is my understanding of what this committee has recommended, in that there would be a trajectory in place so that people could know that this was coming and that we needed to change behaviour, but that there would also be a mechanism within that trajectory that would raise revenues to do just that.