Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is a mechanism in place so that many farmers are sheltered from the carbon tax. Contractors are not, and we know the issue there. There is a challenge there, but for farmers there is the double accounting mechanism which allows carbon tax to be counted and taxed in a way that can remove that carbon tax from farmers. However, the wider carbon tax is coming into the farming sector but it is contributing to the uplift we have been able to give. Certainly, I would like more of it, to be able to bring everybody in, but that is a battle I continue to fight.