Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)

The Minister has disassociated himself from that particular carbon tax. Why? It is because it will place a large burden on the average family. For all the talk about carbon taxes, the Minister will not admit to the very carbon tax in this budget.

As a Green Party Minister, if he really wanted to tackle carbon emissions from the transport sector, why is the Minister allowing the Department of Transport to make Dublin Bus take buses off the road? Why was that not his bottom line when he entered government? Why did he not make his priority putting more buses on the road, instead of measures such as this which are simply about raising revenue?

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