Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 November 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed)

1:59 pm

Mr. Derek Moran:

I do not believe there is a conundrum. I have already said we take the revenues and recycle them into targeted supports for low-income families to mitigate some or all of the impacts on them. We have made a certain degree of progress and this progress stopped in terms of carbon taxation generally. Whatever we do it is important that we have a multi-annual plan that deals with increases in taxation and the ways in which this can be done. Having a plan means things get done