IFA: Carbon tax to cost rural Ireland ‘millions’.

THE carbon tax will cost ruralIreland millions of euro, the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) claimed yesterday.

It said that “Strive”, the Environmental Protection Agency/Economic and Social Research Institute report published last week, shows the impact of the tax varies from €25 per household per year (inner city) to €275 in some rural areas.

IFA deputy president Eddie Downey said the report reveals how Government policy decisions continue to discriminate massively against rural Ireland.