Ms Michelle Murphy:

I want to briefly respond on the issue of carbon tax. The challenge is that the focus is on carbon tax whereas it should be on carbon policy. Carbon tax is one element of that policy. Homes cannot be retrofitted overnight so people will have to be supported through the tax credit and welfare system while the retrofitting is being ramped up and the houses that are in energy poverty need to be targeted first.

On childcare and the new national childcare scheme, care must be taken with the potential impacts on same, particularly as all the supports are being rolled into one to create a universal system. We have to ensure those families that were reliant on additional targeted supports do not lose out. Care will have to be taken with that when this is introduced in the coming months.