Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

We will be asking for a vote on this resolution and I suspect that at least 25% of the Dáil will be in opposition to it. More importantly, I think that many ordinary people will oppose this. They see it as the first tax in a whole series over the next ten years which will put the burden for the climate emergency on their shoulders rather than on the shoulders of the big corporations where it belongs. It is a regressive tax which will hit middle and low-income people and commuters. It is unjust and should be opposed. We need real measures to tackle the climate emergency, such as free public transport.

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