It is folly but we hear from Government all the time that there is no excise tax on home heating oil despite numerous replies to parliamentary question saying over and over that there is excise duty on home heating oil in the form of carbon tax, and carbon tax is excise. We should really stop that stupid debate because this is legislation that deals with excise, a version of which is mineral oil tax and part of that is carbon tax, which is an excise duty.
Government has this idea of carbon tax as a Holy Grail, so no matter how difficult things get for families, it is not willing to deal with it just because the excise duty is called carbon tax.
Key terms by TF-IDF across 5,053 words from 6 speakers. The summary quotes the highest-scoring sentences verbatim — nothing is paraphrased.
Tellers: Tá, Deputies Cian O'Callaghan and Jennifer Whitmore; Níl, Deputies Mary Butler and Emer Currie.
| Question | Result | Tá–Níl |
|---|---|---|
| Question put: | Carried | 84–52 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 65–79 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 64–78 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 71–82 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 45–102 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 45–104 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 45–103 |
| Question put: | Carried | 107–47 |
| Question put: | Carried | 110–43 |
| Question put: | Carried | 86–70 |
| Amendment put: | Carried | 84–70 |
| Question put: "That the motion, as amended, be agreed to." | Carried | 83–70 |
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