Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I would like to come back to the paragraph from the CSO report that I read a few moments ago. It appears somewhat perverse from a climate change perspective that we are incentivising the use of diesel, which is more harmful to the environment. We know that for other policy reasons, fuel allowance is given to people to help them to heat their houses during the winter. Much of that is spent on fossil fuels. We collect taxes and give them to people to maintain or increase their burning of fossil fuels. I almost see it as a bit of a cash for ash scheme, if Mr. Brady will pardon the slight analogy. It is not quite in the same category. Does Mr. Brady get the logic of what I am saying? We are giving the taxes we are collecting to people to continue to burn fossil fuels and create more ash up the chimney or wherever it goes. We have our own little cash for ash system. It is not in public view. We just want to put it out there. That was the nickname given to the scheme in the North of Ireland. Is there a parallel? I ask Mr. Brady to respond to the point I am making. Is my logic valid?