Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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Question 171: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to tax aviation fuel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13606/07]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Aviation fuel is currently exempt from taxation on international air travel under the terms of the 1944 Chicago Convention, which still governs much of international aviation regulation, and to date there has been no consensus among governments on introducing an international jet kerosene tax.