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

We certainly would not do what the Minister is doing. He is coming to this committee to reallocate what were described as ring-fenced carbon taxes to deliver on retrofitting and agricultural schemes and to reduce fuel poverty, and redirect them towards funding emergency electricity that successive governments have created the demand for through the proliferation of data centres. People are being taxed on the double. This is a perfect case of the problem with this Government's and successive governments' approach to carbon tax. We fundamentally have an issue with this approach, and I am articulating it now.