Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 21 November 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (Resumed)
9:00 am
Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
As in the previous debate all we want from the Department is to know in simple English where the €3.35 billion collected in carbon tax since 2010 has been spent. Either in 2012 a figure was produced showing it for the previous year or at this stage the Department is going to try to assemble the figures in retrospect to show us. They were either documented at the time or they were not. I am not talking about the Department now trying to invent something justifying it seven years on where we have collected and have it. Was it documented? Can Mr. Carroll give me a document today showing where the carbon tax collected in 2010 was specifically spent? Does that document exist?
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