Report likely to recommend 4-fold carbon tax increase

A series of votes by TDs and Senators on the Oireachtas Climate Action Committee means the original text of their draft report will be retained.

Fianna Fáil had proposed that this text be deleted. However with the Committee tied with 11 votes in favour and 11 votes against their amendment was lost.It is currently unclear if Fianna Fáil will support the draft report in totality, given its amendment on the green tax was defeated. Around 40 other amendments to the climate action plan have been proposed, and the committee will now go through them chapter by chapter.

Earlier today, Green Party leader Eamon Ryan conceded that the committee's work had hit "a speed bump" and publication could be delayed by at least another week.

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