Colm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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Apologies have been received from Deputies Declan Breathnach and Martin Heydon.

The select committee will be holding a number of pre-budget scrutiny sessions to consider revenue raising and tax expenditure options in advance of budget 2019. The issue of the petrol and diesel excise duties gap was considered by the tax strategy group which examined a possible pathway to equalising these excise duties over a five-year period. Today the committee will meet Professor Edgar Morgenroth to discuss the Economic and Social Research Institute's study of the environmental impact of fiscal instruments, with particular reference to the difference in the petrol and diesel excise rates. The committee has also invited representatives of the Irish Road Haulage Association and the Irish Electric Vehicle Owners Association to meet it to discuss the issue. Before we meet them, I propose that we go into private session to deal with some committee business.