Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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I absolutely agree. There is such a job ahead of us and its scale is beyond compare. The revenues from the carbon tax will not do it all. We will have to use a large amount of other money targeting exactly what Dr. Keilthy said. She seems to be saying we could raise the fuel allowance as a mechanism of using the revenues from a carbon tax and as one tool to tackle fuel poverty and poverty in general. If the Society of St. Vincent de Paul had a choice between that and the tax and dividend model, whereby the revenue would be returned in the form of an increased social welfare payment and an increased tax credit, the latter would be preferable, from SVP's perspective.