Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 September 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals

Photo of Lynn BoylanLynn Boylan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

To follow up on Deputy Whitmore's question about the additional amount being ring-fenced for the carbon tax, has any data been collected by the Department? Given that carbon tax is supposed to be a behavioural tax, you should be seeing the revenue decreasing as it is having the effect it is supposed to have. Is any modelling being done by the Department on that? Mr. Maughan gave the figure of €495 million and noted the carbon tax goes up to €100 per tonne by 2030, but surely there should be at least an equalisation or decrease in the revenue coming up. Has that modelling been done?

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