Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I said we would be working on proposals to set a price for carbon and then bring the tax up to that over a period of time. We would, I said, need to talk to the main Opposition party about that and agree at Government but I thought it a necessary part of our climate change obligations.

What I said in August is what I said here. I never said or committed to a carbon tax increase in the recent budget.

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