Mr. Gerry Kenny:

The Deputy also asked about the Minister making an increase. The figures she has are broadly in line with what we would expect to raise in terms of an increase of €5 and €10 a tonne.

On the mitigating factors, our tax strategy group paper will set out what the mitigants could be but as I said here earlier, those are matters for the decision of the Minister and the Government in the context of the budget as to how, if he does decide to increase carbon tax, what he will do with the revenues afterwards.