Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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Question 94: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the finding in the survey on people's attitudes to climate change that when specific prices were given for carbon taxes that the majority of those surveyed opposed the specific carbon taxes suggested to them; and the reason these findings were not published when he first announced the results of the survey in February 2008. [27584/08]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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I have noted the findings in the survey relating to carbon taxes. The Programme for Government includes a commitment to investigate fiscal measures to protect and enhance the environment, including the introduction of a carbon tax. I refer to the reply to Question No. 91 of 27 May 2008 in this regard. The survey was commissioned at the end of February 2008, the questionnaire was designed and the fieldwork carried out in March, following which the headline results were announced in April. A full analysis of the findings was carried out by the researchers in April and presented to the Department in late April for consideration. The findings were subsequently published in full in May.