Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax
Dail Éireann — 2022-09-27
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

That is fine. I have made the point that I am against these regressive taxes because they are punishing people who do not have alternatives and choices. The Government should be providing them with the alternatives and choices to reduce fossil fuel use rather than punishing them, which is what is actually happening. For goodness sake, even if the Government cannot agree with us on that, to me it just beggars belief. It is the same, by the way, with the transport budget. There is virtually no increase in the expenditure on public transport. There is a reduction in the allocation to the Minister's own Department. Who is funding the just transition for the people affected by climate action? There is clearly not funding for it in this budget.

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Sitting date: 2022-09-27