The Taoiseach has announced that carbon taxes will be increased to help reduce emissions and tackle climate change.

John Gibbons of An Taisce explained more about what this will mean: "We're looking primarily at fossil fuels. The purpose of taxes are to nudge us in the direction we want society to go."

"There are thousands of people admitted to hospitals every year as a result of the fact that emissions create so much pollution in our towns and cities, but those costs get dumped on the general taxpayer. What we're trying to do is to attach carbon taxes so that they better reflect the true cost to society of certain activities."

Councillor Keith Redmond, co-founder of the Hibernia Forum, says that increasing carbon taxes will "massively increase the cost of living."

"The carbon tax starts off with a laudable notion and then bleeds into the rest of the economy. If you make it so prohibitively expensive for people to heat their homes, you get another increase in the healthcare system in people with hypothermia or respiratory conditions."

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