Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I do not think it is an abstract argument for those people paying carbon tax. The Minister knows my party's position in relation to it and criticisms of it, one of which is there are no alternatives for people paying carbon tax. Now they are told some of the carbon tax they pay is not going to retrofitting, agricultural schemes or to offset fuel poverty, but to the funding of emergency electricity generation which they will pay for, initially in carbon tax and other taxes and, at the back end, in an increase in electricity prices. It is an incredible proposition.