Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 17 November 2020
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I will keep my comments very brief. It is possible that we could move to the form of taxation the Deputy is proposing, but it is a medium-term project. At the moment our NCT centres do not have the technology to do the kind of real-time CO2 emissions testing he is referring to. We could move to that point over time but it is a medium-term project. What we have here is a significant improvement on where we were in the past and will make a big difference to the purchase of cars that have a less harmful effect on our climate and environment.
I will briefly make reference to the further changes I am making to the NOx surcharge, included in this section. It is a response to the point Deputy Naughten made about NOx particulates at the start of the section.