Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 November 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion

7:30 pm

Dr. Miguel Tovar Reaños:

Our research shows that poorer households spend more on energy and pay more in taxes in proportion to their income. We show that if some of the revenue was used to protect those in the lowest deciles of income distribution, the policy would work well enough. We must also distinguish between rural and urban areas. There is an income and a geographical dimension.