Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank Dr. Moran. I will now ask my final question. When the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, was with us last, we discussed VAT, the greening of VAT, and that the EU has slightly changed its approach and is interested in a way that perhaps it was not before in talking to countries about variations of VAT that would lead to carbon savings. Is any work being done on that? I refer, for example, to measures in France that were brought in for a lower VAT rate on repair, or for electrical items that could more easily be repaired, or for the rental of clothes and so on. It recognises things that are identifiably more green.