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:
There are subsidies on healthy products. There was a pulses subsidy in India whereby people were getting staple diet foods much cheaper and there were corresponding taxes that were helping to fund that. A lot of the evidence that is out there seems to be do with modelling. Again, if something has not been tried and has not been done, we have to either take the leap of faith or do some sort of modelling on it. That is what we did with the sugar sweets and drinks tax and, as I said, it has been a big success. Does that answer the questions?
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