Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 5 May 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Finance
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2020
Chapter 16 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
Audited Financial Statements of the Exchequer for 2020
9:30 am
Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent)
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I want to focus on how the Department manages Ireland's competitiveness, including strategies employed with the likes of carbon taxes. We have spoken about reductions already. We are now at €41 per tonne for the carbon tax and Germany is at €25 per tonne. We have vehicle registration tax at a level between 7% and 37% on cars but Germany has no such tax. What strategies are employed to keep Ireland competitive as an island nation with the rest of the EU?