Mr. Brian Carroll:

The other thing I am saying is that over that period, both in our Vote and across other Votes, there was significant expenditure on climate action programmes. I do not have the accumulated data on that to hand. I know that for this year's Revised Estimates Volume, REV, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform tried to identify that expenditure and published a table in the REV.

They are part of a green budgeting initiative that the OECD is leading on to ensure a common approach and comparability across countries and that this transparency will increase over time. It is not a question of me suggesting that I can retrospectively construct some link between carbon tax to date and how it was spent. It went into general tax receipts. I can say at the same time that significant amounts of money were being spent through various Votes on climate action. I do not have the accumulated amount that was spent over that period to hand but I know-----