Pearse Doherty — 2026-04-14

Financial Resolution No. 2: Natural Gas Carbon Tax

SF Pearse Doherty · Donegal

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I move amendment No. 1: In paragraph (1), to delete the table proposed to be inserted by subparagraph (a) and substitute the following: "TABLE RATE OF NATURAL GAS CARBON TAX ".

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FG Simon Harris

I move:

(1) THAT for the purposes of the tax charged by virtue of section 67 of the Finance Act 2010 (No. 5 of 2010), that section be amended, with effect as on and from 15 April 2026, by the substitution of the following for the Table to subsection (1) of that section (as amended by section 28(a) of the Finance Act 2020 (No. 26 of 2020)):

"TABLE

RATE OF NATURAL GAS CARBON TAX

(2) IT is hereby declared that it is expedient in the public interest that this Resolution shall have

statutory effect under the provisions of the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1927 (No. 7 of 1927).

SF Pearse Doherty this contribution

I move amendment No. 1:

In paragraph (1), to delete the table proposed to be inserted by subparagraph (a) and substitute the following:

"TABLE

RATE OF NATURAL GAS CARBON TAX