Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

The Commission on Taxation, which the Taoiseach launched when Minister for Finance, was to produce a report by the autumn on proposals for carbon taxation, as per the Programme for Government and the agreement with the Green Party. Have the terms of reference been varied, or is the report on carbon taxation being dropped or delayed until next year? Will the Taoiseach communicate with us the implications of that for the commission's work?

The commission is made up mostly of vested interests from accounting and tax advisers. The Green Party is having a hard week. The ethics legislation and Thornton Hall are difficulties. I remember——

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