Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Motions 5 to 8, inclusive, provide for a year-on-year increase in carbon tax for the next decade. We know that this will have a disproportionately negative impact on workers and families on low incomes, lone parents and rural households. This Government plans to lock in these increases over the next decade, starting next year with a 39% increase in carbon tax. We know that the reality of this measure is that it will just make households poorer by making it more costly for them to heat their homes, cook their food and run their cars. On the basis that this set of motions contains motions 5 to 8, inclusive, dealing with sections 26 to 28, inclusive, of the Finance Bill, Sinn Féin objects to this going forward.

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