Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)

The Minister is basically saying that, under the first measure, 12 vehicles have been granted tax relief and, under the second, no additional tax relief has been granted. Does this not give the lie to the fact that these are not just green veneer measures in what the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government described as the greenest budget ever? Given the history of previous budgets, however, that was not a very proud boast. If it was a green budget, it was the most pallid of greens.

The second measure in particular is hard to accept.

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