Financial Resolution No. 2: Natural Gas Carbon Tax

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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).
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 ".
Question put: "That amendment No. 1 set down to the motion for Financial Resolution No. 2 is hereby negatived and the motion for Financial Resolution No. 2 is hereby agreed to."
The Dáil divided: Tá, 115; Níl, 52; Staon, 0.
Tellers: Tá, Deputies Mary Butler and Emer Currie; Níl, Deputies Paul Murphy and Richard Boyd Barrett.
Question declared carried.