Seanad debates
Thursday, 5 December 2002
Order of Business.
Feargal Quinn (Independent)
In his budget speech, the Minister for Finance referred to the fact that he intends to introduce a tax on carbon emissions by 2004. We should support such a tax if it changes our behaviour rather than raises revenue. When it introduced the tax on plastic bags, the Government aimed not at raising revenue but at changing behaviour and that tax has been a wonderful success. The carbon emissions tax could operate in a similar fashion.
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