Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 April 2023
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Chris Macey:
The committee was looking at the commission's report. In our view, the commission has made sensible recommendations and proposals around this. We want to support it. We want this issue to be aired fully. We want the public health aspects of it to come through. We have done this on tobacco and alcohol, which have high tax regimes. They were initially sin taxes, but are now health taxes to a large extent. We need that to come more into the ambit of food. The food and diet we have is not conducive to a healthy nation.
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